Book reviews

Lutman, M. E. and Haggard, M. P. (Eds.). Hearing Science and Hearing Disorders. London: Academic Press. 1983. Pp. 338. ISBN 0-12-460440. £15.00.

Mehler, J., Walker, E. C. T. and Garrett, M. (Eds.). Perspectives on Mental Representation: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Cognitive Processes and Capacities. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. xiv+485. ISBN 0-89859-194-5. £27.50.

Schacter, D. L. The Stranger Behind the Engram. Theories of Memory and the Psychology of Science. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. 294. ISBN 0-89859-245-3. £19.95.

Broughton, J. M. and Freeman-Moir, D. J. (Eds.). The Cognitive Developmental Psychology of James Mark Baldwin: Current Theory and Research in Genetic Epistemology. Norwood, N. J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation. 1982. Pp. 460. ISBN 0-89391-043-0. £36.50.

Flammer, A. and Kintsch, W. (Eds.). Discourse Processing (Advances in Psychology, Vol. 8). Amsterdam: North Holland. 1982. Pp. x + 614. ISBN 0-444-86515-2. £33.19.

Beaumont, J. Graham. (Ed.). Divided Visual Field Studies of Cerebral Organisation. London: Academic Press. 1982. Pp. xiii + 305. ISBN 0-12-084080-4. £18.00.

Lloyd-Bostock, S. and Clifford, B. R. (Eds.). Evaluating Witness Evidence: Recent Psychological Research and New Perspectives. Chichester: Wiley. Pp. x - 305. ISBN 0-471-10463-9. £19.95.

Jarvella, R. J. and Klein, W. (Eds.). Speech, Place and Action: Studies in Deixis and Related Topics. Chichester: Wiley. 1982. Pp. 389. ISBN 0-471-10045-5. £22.75.

Bradshaw, J. L. and Nettleton, N. G. Human Cerebral Asymmetry. Englewood Porac, C. and Coren, S. Lateral Preferences and Human Behaviour. New York: Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1982. Pp. 335. ISBN 0-13-444646-1. £21.00.

Porac, C. and Coren, S. Lateral Preferences and Human Behaviour. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1981. Pp. 283. ISBN 0-387-90596-0. $24.20.

Barlow, H. B. and Mollon, J. D. (Eds.). The Senses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. Pp. 490. ISBN 0-521-24474-9. Hardback £30.00; paperback £12.50.

Bronson, G. W. The Scanning Patterns of Human Infants: Implications for Visual Learning. Norwood, N. J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation. 1982. Pp. 152. ISBN 0-89391-114-3. £16.00.

Walk, R. D. and Pick, Jr., H. L. (Eds.). Intersensory Perception and Sensory Integration. New York: Plenum. 1981. Pp. 415. ISBN 0-306-40610-1. $32.50.

Underwood, G. and Stevens, R. (Eds.). Aspects of Consciousness, Vol. 2: Structural Issues. London: Academic Press. 1981. Pp. 246. ISBN 0-12-708802-4. £5.00

Underwood, G. (Ed.). Aspects of Consciousness, Vol. 3: Awareness and Self-Awareness. London: Academicpress. 1982. Pp. 331. ISBN 0-12-708803-2. £9.00.

Lehnert, W. G. and Ringle, M. H. (Eds.). Strategies for Natural Language Processing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1982. Pp. xxii + 533. ISBN 0-89859-191-0. £ 27.50.     

The relationship between external job mobility and salary attainment across career stages

The current study examines the relationship between external job mobility and salary for employees in different career stages. Based on career stage and career timetable theories, we predict that external job mobility would generate the greatest salary benefits for early-career employees whereas external job mobility would generate fewer salary benefits for employees in mid- and late career stages. Data collected from multiple industries in Hong Kong and the United States consistently show that, as expected, highly mobile early-career employees earn significantly greater salaries than their less mobile peers do. The positive effects of external job mobility on salary were stronger for early-career workers than for mid-and late-career workers.     

Violation of the scalar property for time perception between 1 and 2 seconds: evidence from interval discrimination, reproduction, and categorization

According to the hypothesis of a scalar property for time, the variability to time ratio should be constant. Three experiments tested the validity of this hypothesis in a restricted range of durations (standard values = 1, 1.3, 1.6, and 1.9 s). In each experiment, time intervals to be discriminated, reproduced, or categorized were presented with 2, 4, or 6 brief successive auditory signals marking 1, 3, or 5 intervals, respectively. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to indicate whether the interval(s) within a second series of sounds were shorter or longer than those of the first. In Experiment 2, the standard interval had to be reproduced. In Experiment 3, after 10 presentations of the standard, participants had to categorize each comparison interval as shorter or longer than the standard. In addition to showing that performance was generally poorer when only 1 interval was presented and remained about the same regardless of whether 3 or 5 intervals were presented (Experiments 1 and 3), the results demonstrated that the variability to time ratio is not constant across the standard interval conditions. Overall, the ratio is higher at 1.9 than at 1 s. This violation of scalar timing occurs whatever the method used and does not interact with the number-of-interval variable.