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Authors' Note
The authors extend their deep appreciation to the following individuals and institutions,
without whom this project would not have been possible: For the two Berlin samples, we
would like to thank the students, faculty and administrators for their co-operation, and Markus
von Bechtolsheim, Alexandra Freund, Anita Günther, Kerstin Haenel, Annette Losert, Anna
Maciel, Ralf Krampe, Ulrich Mayr, Petra Retzlaff, and Mirjam Wensauer for data collection. In
addition, we thank Beate Doil for making initial contacts to the East Berlin schools. For the Los
Angeles sample, we would like to thank Dr. Keith Widaman, from the University of California,
Riverside, for establishing the many necessary contacts, the California Educational Research
Council (CERC) at the University of California, Riverside, and its director Dr. Doug Mitchel
for co-ordinating the district connections, and the students, faculty, and administrators from the
Ontario-Montclair school district, from which the sample was drawn, for their generous co-
operation. In addition, we thank the team of research assistants from the University of
California at Riverside for outstanding efforts in data collection and coding, and the Department
of Psychology and the Academic Computing Service at University of California, Riverside, for
providing access to the computing facilities. And, lastly, for the Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague
samples, we also thank all the students, faculty, and administrators for their kind co-operation.
A most important acknowledgement is extended to Anna Stetsenko, now at the University of
Bern, for her contribution in this project as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck
Institute (1990-1992).
With regard to the preparation of this report, the authors' extent a hearty "thanks" to
Brigitte Wanner, Heidi Hooper, Anne Tschida, Matthias Graßhof, and Matthias Stroux for their
assistance. We also thank Werner Scholtysik and Wolfgang Assmann for their computer
resource management services.
Address correspondence to either author at the Max Planck Institute for Human
Development and Education, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany.