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Bastien, Samuel A., IV; Kessler, Marc – 1983
Prior studies of hypnotic treatment of smoking have reported abstinence rates of between 17 and 88 percent at six months, but few have investigated procedures or forms of suggestions. To compare the effectiveness of positive and negative hypnotic suggestions and self-hypnosis for cessation of smoking, 32 subjects were assigned to one of four…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Hypnosis, Predictor Variables, Smoking
Kimmel, Allan J. – 1989
Public reactions to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) crisis are accompanied by the sorts of emotional and cognitive factors that have been identified by researchers as predictors of rumor generation and transmission. The present investigation attempted to ascertain the extent that various subjective factors (including anxiety,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Anxiety, Behavior Change, College Students
Black, David R.; And Others – 1982
Individual variability in response to behavioral weight loss programs remains an unresolved and perplexing issue for health psychologists. Determining in advance who will succeed or fail at losing weight would be useful in devising programs that produce a more homogeneous and dramatic response to treatment. In order to examine which responses to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Health Programs
Chaffee, Steven H.; Choe, Sun Yuel – 1980
Data from a national survey were used to test a model representing the dynamics of newspaper reading behaviors. It was hypothesized that three types of constraints (structural constraints, transitional constraints, and self-constraints) would be present to various degrees in four types of newspaper readers: regular readers, regular nonreaders,…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Information Seeking
Lichtenstein, Brenda; Sherman, A. Robert – 1983
The present research program began as a preliminary attempt to examine the relationship between client and treatment loci of control as a predictor of success in weight control programs. In the first phase of the research, individuals previously attempting weight loss, and the programs they had pursued, were classified as being either primarily…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Body Weight, Clinics, College Students
Jenkins, Karen; And Others – 1979
With the recent trend towards diversionary projects for juvenile law offenders, various threapeutic residential and outreach models have been introduced. It was hypothesized that there are family characteristics which are related to high incidences of continued delinquent behavior, and that males from single parent, low-income families will be the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Counseling Effectiveness, Crisis Intervention, Delinquency
Meacham, Merle L. – 1974
This paper presents a case study of a sixth grade remedial math class which illustrates the thesis that only the "experimental attitude," not the "experimental method," is appropriate in the classroom. The thesis is based on the fact that too many independent variables exist in a classroom situation to allow precise…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Contingency Management
Erickson, Betty – 2000
This paper discusses the occurrence of challenging behaviors in adult men dually diagnosed with cerebral palsy and mental retardation, the dynamics that underlie problematic interactions with staff and peers, and strategies with which to address these behaviors. The vicious cycle that occurs when a client with cerebral palsy and mental retardation…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification
Crawley, Frank E.; Koballa, Thomas R., Jr. – 1991
The study sought to: (1) identify the determinants that motivate Hispanic-American students to enroll in high school chemistry; and (2) determine if providing belief-based information to students and their parents/guardians increases chemistry registration. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) guided the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Beliefs, Career Choice
Cairns, Robert B.; Cairns, Beverly D. – 1989
Changes from the expected life course can arise from at least three different reasons in longitudinal work: developmental novelty, errors in diagnosis, and errors in expectation. This longitudinal study examined the social development of 220 fourth graders and 475 seventh graders over a period of 10 years with over 98 percent of the original…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on emotion and behavior in the workplace that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Emotion Work, and Perceptions of Affective Culture in a Military Nonprofit Organization" (Jamie L. Callahan, David R. Schwandt) reports on a study of the emotion…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Affective Behavior