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This study is an outgrowth of a broader one being conducted by the Biological Sciences Communications Project on the validity or relevance of titles in describing the content of biological articles. It is restricted to the psychology portion of the total sample. The purpose of the study was to assist the author in gaining insight into the problems of documentation research, and to provide the project with a pilot study—one of several.
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Lawrence S. Papier (1963) studied this question.
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