Concordance among readers of self-help books about important ideas.
Amount of agreement among readers about the relevant information in a self-help psychology book was measured to assess whether readers' choices are unique or overlapping. 15 men and 14 women attended two 1-hr. sessions in which they read and marked relevant information in the first 60 pages of a self-help psychology book. Comparison of the amount and pattern of marking across pages and lines on five specific pages showed that there was a statistically significant amount of agreement on which pages contained relevant ideas and which lines contained important concepts. There were no differences between men and women.
Gabriel
Betty L
BL
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada.
Forest
James J
JJ
D000328:Adult; D001242:Assertiveness; D001288:Attention; D001290:Attitude; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014956:Writing