To clarify the role of cognitive bias in manuscript review, designated more and less politically liberal area specialists and nonspecialists were sent either of two versions of a brief empirical report contrasting student political activists' and nonactivists' psychological well‐being. The forms were identical, except that all references to activists and to nonactivists in the results and discussion sections were interchanged. The referees, led to think that they were participating in a study of the usefulness of a closed‐ended manuscript evaluation procedure, were asked to rate the article's publishability and the degree to which specific criteria for scientific quality were met. The main results confirmed the expectation that publication verdicts handed down about a paper containing information of social import are sometimes biased by a reviewer's political orientation. However, the results were largely null regarding the susceptibility to value‐intrusion of scholarly inferences anchored to discrete criteria. Ego involvement is implicated as a mediator of biasing effects in the editorial process.

This study tested the predictive utility of a Client X Modality interactive model for group psychotherapy outcome. Twenty-six mildly distressed college student clients were assigned randomly to a nondirective or to one of three directive groups, all led by the same therapist. Belief in personal internal-external control was the individual-difference predictor, and a multivariable personality battery provided the indexes of psychosocial adjustment. As hypothesized, more internally oriented persons were more therapeutically responsive ito the nondirective than to the directive approach, whereas the reverse tended to be the case among those more externally oriented.* The second author. 5 The nondireotive mode was intended to be leadership sharing and group facilitative but not necessarily Rogerian. That comparable levels of the client-centered conditions (Relationship Inventory; Barrett-Lennard, 1969) were perceived by members of the nondirective and directive groups supports this point.

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The Internal-External Control, Guilford Depression, and Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scales were administered to 69 university undergraduates to test the hypothesis that depression is associated with belief in external control. The results supported the hypothesis. Implications of the results for notions which link I-E to maladjustment in a U-shaped fashion and for some psychodynamic notions regarding correlates of depression were discussed.

Mood changes over the bulimic binge–purge cycle were studied in retrospective questionnaire reports of patients, 16 with and 34 without concurrent affective disorder. Moods clearly differed over phases. Mood reports depicted the period between the binge and purge as most unpleasant, with low energy/excitement and security/relief and high panic/helplessness and guilt/disgust/anger. Feelings after the purge were relatively calm and pleasurable, with low panic/helplessness and excitement/energy and high security/relief. Patients with affective disorder did not differ from those without affective disorder in their mood changes during the cycle.