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Norman, Nancy; And Others – 1982
Research shows that people comply more frequently to threats when the credibility of the source is high rather than low and that compliance is directly related to punishment magnitude. To examine the impact of an advisor on a target of threats, male college students (N=74) participated in an experiment that included high or low threatner…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Credibility, Higher Education
Creamer, Vicki A.; Brown, Sandra A. – 1985
Expectancies of reinforcement from alcohol have been investigated from a variety of research perspectives. Although results vary with methodology, subject characteristics, and amount of alcohol consumed, research seems to indicate that the expectation of receiving alcohol influences, and at times outweighs, the actual pharmacological properties of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns, Drinking
Williams, Bruce W. – 1979
Reward contingencies and other extrinsic constraints on behavior can lead to reduced levels of interest in and/or decreased engagement in a target activity in a subsequent noncontingent situation. It has been hypothesized that this effect is caused by a change in the self-perceived locus of motivation from intrinsic to extrinsic. It follows from…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Contingency Management, Interests
Drabman, Ronald S. – 1975
This paper addresses some of the practical ways by which students can be given information about the adequacy of their responding. The author views this information as all that is frequently necessary to alter an inappropriate behavior. Thus, he considers feedback to be the first step in most behavior management programs. Studies to determine how…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Contingency Management
Stalling, Richard B.; And Others – 1983
Within the area of attribution theory, an overjustification effect is inferred if, following reward for an intrinsically interesting activity, individuals subsequently show less interest in that activity than comparable individuals who receive no reward. In an attempt to isolate the overjustification effect, 60 college students (30 male, 30…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Feedback
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Affective and physiological responses, interpersonal interaction, and alcohol consumption have been significantly correlated with cognitive factors in defining the behavioral effects of alcohol. To investigate alcohol reinforcement expectancies at the abusive end of the drinking continuum, 305 male and female adult alcoholics enrolled in alcohol…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns
Fouts, Gregory T. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of being imitated on behaviors of preschool children. Each of 24 subjects was given a choice of three responses in a marble-dropping task and was required to make one choice, after which an experimenter either imitated or did not imitate a subject's behavior. The results indicated that when a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Experimental Psychology, Extinction (Psychology), Imitation
Ratliff, Katharine G.; And Others – 1986
Studies on alcohol and aggression have tended to use male subjects and to employ negative shock deliveries as the measure of aggression. This study was conducted to investigate sex differences in alcohol's effect on aggression and to examine the impact of providing both positive and negative response options. Male (N=48) and female (N=48)…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Drinking
Grove, J. Robert; And Others – 1983
To determine the influence of successful or unsuccessful competitive outcomes and small or large margins of victory/defeat on performance, pairs of female undergraduate students "competed" against each other in a dart tossing contest. False feedback about the outcomes and margin of victory/defeat led subjects to believe they were winning every…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Competition, Conditioning
Seybert, Jeffrey A.; And Others – 1978
The effects of different schedules of noncontingent reward on subsequent learning in children were investigated. In the first phase of the experiment subjects performed a block-design matching task and received one of three schedules of noncontingent reward, i.e., continuous reward (Group CRF), random reward on 50% of the trials (Group 50R), or no…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children, Contingency Management
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Alcoholism research has independently focused on background characteristics and alcohol-related expectations, e.g., social and physical pleasure, reduced tension, and increased assertiveness, as important variables in identifying high risk individuals. To assess the utility of alcohol reinforcement expectations as predictors of drinking patterns,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Background, Behavior Patterns
Cousins, Peter C.; Vincent, John P. – 1981
Recent investigations of marital interaction have concentrated on the process of communication while discussing issues of conflict within the relationship. Few studies have been designed to assess emotional communication among married couples. To determine emotional interaction by examining the overall distribution and sequencing of emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Communication Skills, Disclosure
Cicirelli, Victor G. – 1978
The relationship of family variables to locus of control, under the hypothesis that a larger and more cohesive family provides greater reinforcement for the elderly person's actions was investigated. Elderly persons (N=200) aged 60-90 were interviewed at home and given Rotter's I-E scale. In a regression analysis, after removing effects of age and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Influence, Family Relationship, Gerontology
Cooper, Harris M.; And Others – 1979
Extensive research has been conducted examining the effects of teacher expectations on student performance, revealing reasonably consistent patterns of differential behavior by teachers toward high and low expectation students. Few theories which integrate isolated research findings into a causal sequence have emerged, however. One such model…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
DeLamarter, William A.; Krepps, Patrice E. – 1980
Intrinsic motivation and self-reinforcement can be used identically to explain behavioral persistence in the absence of external reward. Yet the relationship between these concepts has not been adequately explored. Since intrinsic motivation appears to be dependent on an interesting task and self-reinforcement independent of task, it was…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Evaluation Criteria
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