Early foreign language (FL) programmes have grown rapidly worldwide in the past two decades, resting on the assumption that "earlier is better" for learning a FL. However, the majority of empirical studies that investigated the "earlier is better" hypothesis were conducted in naturalistic immersion contexts. Given the…

The purpose of this study is to quantify certain characteristics of the articles published in "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior" in three 5-year periods, namely, 1971-1975, 1984-1988, and 1997-2001. The characteristics in question include geographic origin of articles, number of authors per article, number of references listed per article,…

Cohort changes in attitudes about the availability of legal abortions are traced over a 12-year period using data from seven national surveys. Contrary to the aging-conservatism hypothesis, trends in the direction of increasingly favorable attitudes between 1965 and 1973 and general stability thereafter characterize all cohorts. On this issue,…

Describes a study comparing the grades of community college students under and over 25 years of age in selected classes at 6 Virginia community colleges. Older students had higher grades on their first major exam and higher final grades in both transfer and development courses. Reviews prior research. (DMM)