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This study uses matched tasks methodology, and shows that unipolar depressives perform better on recognition than on recall. Since they also show a low level of item clustering in free recall, this suggests that the memory deficit of depressives is partly due to an associative disturbance.

It is argued that previous name stereotype research has been one-sided in focusing solely on stimulus characteristics. This study attempted to improve this situation by taking into account the Christian name stereotype of both the subject and stimulus figure. Subjects marked six essays each supposedly written by a different stimulus figure. A 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 ANOVA (male vs. female subjects x attractively named vs. unattractively named subjects x male vs. female stimulus figures x attractively named vs. unattractively named vs. unnamed stimulus figures) showed only two significant effects, for attractiveness of the subject's name (P = 0.031) and for attractiveness of the name of the stimulus figure (P = 0.005). This latter effect showed a significant linear trend (P < 0.005) with unattractively named stimulus figures receiving lower marks than unnamed stimulus figures who in turn received lower marks than attractively named stimulus figures. The results were related to the general literature on social relationships and the need for further integrative research was stressed. TAYNOR, J., and DEAUX, K. (1973). When women are more deserving than men: equity, attribution and perceived sex differences. J. Person. SOC. Psychol., 28, 360-367. TAYNOR, J., and DEAUX, K. (1975). Equity and perceived sex differences: role behaviour as defined by the task, the mode, and the actor. J. Person. soc. Psychol., 32, 381-390. ZAJONC, R. B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. J . Person. soc. Psychol., 2. Monograph (Manuscript received 15th September, 1983) P~ychol., 65, 222-225. 1-29.

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