Beschreibung:
The level and variability of science-oriented attitudes among different cohorts of graduate students and faculty in academic psychology provided evidence bearing on the course of occupational socialization and selective attrition in the discipline. Clear differences were found among the cohorts. New students were less science-oriented and more diverse than mid-career faculty but older students and recent graduates were very similar to their faculty mentors. Faculty showed little attitudinal differences from cohort to cohort. Thus occupational socialization and/or selective attrition have ample room to operate on the science-oriented attitudes of psychology students as they develop into academic psychologists.