This study investigated the effects of a group counseling program introduced into the Navy basic training curriculum. With the exception of anger, negative moods declined and positive moods increased over the course of training for both control and experimental groups. (Author)

The author reexamined the relationship between sex and empathy using graduate students as subjects. The results show that, contrary to Olesker and Balter's findings, for the subjects there was no significant difference in empathic ability whether judging members of the same or the opposite sex. (Author/SE)

The often hypothesized relationship between risk taking and vocational choice behavior was examined by testing whether subjects preferring high levels of risk tended to choose high-risk occupations more often than low-risk occupations when asked to choose between them in an occupational selection task. Results do not indicate any significant…

The experimental group in this study received four weeks of study in rational-emotive education. The control group showed no significant declines in irrational thinking and anxiety, but the experimental group showed significant declines in irrational thinking and anxiety. The rational-emotive educational process, increased rational thinking and…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of two counseling procedures in treating depression when used to individually counsel moderately depressed rural women of low socioeconomic status. Analysis established that women of the lower class made significant improvement, as did women living on more than $400 per month. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to assess counselee perceptions of counselor interpersonal affectiveness. Low-dogmatic counselors appear to show higher levels of psychological insight during counseling than high-dogmatic counselors. (Author)

Females who differed on a measure of parental identification discussed public and private areas of experience during dyadic interviews. Supporting the assumption that fathers are crucial to the expressive-role development of daughters, subjects who identified primarily with father were more personally disclosing overall and talked longer and…

Students (N=49) in an undergraduate educational psychology course designed and conducted behavioral self-modification projects. Correlation and regression analyses suggested weak but significant relationships between self-modification outcomes and a linear combination of dogmatism, sex, and mathematical aptitude variables. The effects of demand…

Studied the efficacy of induced affect as a pregroup training experience for coping with stress related to participation in an encounter group. Results indicated that group participants who did not receive the induced-affect pregroup training demonstrated significant increases on the Neuroticism scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. (Author)