Abstract
Complex-valued harmonic functions that are univalent and sense pre-
serving in the unit disk U can be written in the form $f=h +\bar{g}$, where
h and g are analytic in U. In this paper, we introduce a class $HP(\beta, \alpha)$,
$(\alpha \ge 0, 0 \le \beta< 1)$ of all functions $f=h+\bar{g}$ for which $\Re e\{\alpha z(h'(z)+g'(z))+h(z)+g(z))\}\ge\beta, f(0)=1$. We give suffcient coeffcient conditions
for normalized harmonic functions to be in $HP(\beta, \alpha)$. These conditions are
also shown to be necessary when the coeffcients are negative. This leads to
distortion bounds and extreme points.