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Basow, Susan A.; Crawley, Donna M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Male and female experimenters requested adult shoppers (N=178) to fill out a questionnaire. Refusal data showed shoppers helping other-sex more than same-sex experimenters. Other results showed a significant three-way interaction among helper and helpee sex and sex-typing and situation sex-typing and that helper sex-typing did not have significant…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Helping Relationship, Prosocial Behavior
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Elliott, Robert – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1979
Tested assumptions about behavioral cues that clients use to infer what helpers intend. Questions and acknowledgments were best predictors of client perceptions. Guiding was perceived more often than advisement actually occurred. Intention of communicating understanding of message shifted from reflection in the analogue to acknowledgment in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Counselor Client Relationship
Vinick, Barbara H. – 1981
Little empirically-based research has been conducted on the effects of widowhood on males. The lifestyles of 26 elderly men widowed in 1978 were examined, with special emphasis on their living arrangements, heterosexual relationships, and attitudes toward remarriage. In-depth interviews conducted after the men had been widowed an average of two…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Dating (Social)
Peterson, Lizette; McCommis, Bruce – 1980
The norms of social responsibility and reciprocity govern altruistic behavior. Children and adults show a consistent developmental trend in comparisons of their responses to positive reciprocal situations and their subsequent altruism. Research indicates, however, that children, given the choice to behaviorally aid a needy individual, choose more…
Descriptors: Adults, Altruism, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards