This research has shown that assessment of social behavior beyond differentiation of extremely poorly functioning individuals from normals is possible. (Author)

Tested the hypothesis that distressed spouses are more reactive to immediate events than nondistressed couples. Couples recorded positive, negative and neutral events and satisfaction levels. Distressed couples reported lower rates of positive behavior and that marital satisfaction depended more on frequency of recent positive or negative events.…

This research illustrates one of the facets of the cognitive system of repressors and sensitizers and confirms Byrne's hypotheses concerning differential perceptual systems at the respective R-S levels. (Author)

Describes experiment which tests and supports a social competition hypothesis in clinical intervention, suggesting that patient behavior is determined by clinician interview strategies which reflect their impressions of patient characteristics but are, in reality, a reflection of their own interview behavior. (Author/CJ)

Interpersonal physical space was measured in two groups of male high school students, 30 deviants and 30 normals. Analysis of variance showed that (a) deviants demanded a greater proxemic area, (b) there was a significant increase in proxemic distance from front to rear with no difference between the groups, and (c) both groups demonstrated the…

The results of this study suggest, first, that interpersonal warmth does seem to be a personality dimension which can be reliably judged and, second, that it was possible to define and demonstrate the relevance of a number of behavioral cues for warmth. (Author)

The present study lends strikingly strong support to the assertion that both eye contact and physical distance are sufficiently stable that one can meaningfully characterize people on these interpersonally significant behaviors. (Author)

Measurements based on a structural analytic model of social behavior describe the three-year long psychotherapy of a single family. The model is built on two axes labeled affiliation and interdependence and appears in three planes referring to parentlike, childlike, and introjected behaviors. The model specifies logical opposites, complements, and…

Assessed the performance of hypertensive patients in increasingly demanding interpersonal interactions. Twelve extended role-played scenes were employed. Results indicated that the hypertensive patients responded less assertively than the nonpatient comparison group. However, the performance of the normotensive patient group was similar to that of…

Examined adolescents' current use of substances and their interactions with peers and significant adults. Users of various substances associated with other individuals who used the same substances. Adolescent drug users do not appear to form subcultures delineated from nonuser subcultures along interaction dimensions other than that of drug use.…

Examined susceptibility of marital observations to purposeful faking. Behavioral observations of couples' problem-solving behavior during a conflict-eliciting task were obtained under neutral instructions and under instruction to fake. Evidence for differential responsiveness of marital types to faking instructions was limited and evident only in…

It was concluded that Ss preferring low rates of social interchange show greater change following a weekend encounter group than initially high participators, possibly because the behavior of the former is more discrepant from encounter group norms and thus is confronted more. (Author)

It was hypothesized that unhappily married couples would show a deficit in problem solving by indicating significantly more unresolved problems and would indicate less involvement with one another in both elective free-time activities and shared sexuality. All hypotheses were confirmed. (Author)

In a Rosenthal-type experimental situation, this study found that Ss high in need for approval demonstrated a significant susceptibility to E expectancy effects, while low-approval motivation Ss did not. (Author)