Presented an analogy through which it became possible to understand certain aspects of any personal relationship. (Author/RK)

Two experiments investigated whether adolescents who are considered persistently anti-social by their teachers are generally inferior in acquiring avoidance behavior. (DP)

Behavior is guided by its consequences. Paper explores the events which occur when people attempt to control other people's behavior using this principle. (Author)

Children of ages 8-14 at the borderline of mental retardation (IQ of 60-85) who present serious behavior problems have been variously described as impulsive, lacking facility with concepts of time, overinvolved in fantasy, depressed, and hyperactive. This study sought to test the appropriateness of such descriptive terms. (Author)

This study attempted to demonstrate behavioral correlates of two related Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory code types (4-9,9-4) with inpatients from state psychiatric facilities. The findings are discussed in terms of the discriptors available, the role of base rates, and similarity-dissimilarity of 4-9 profiles. A suggestion is offered…

College students completed anonymous questionnaires on personal drug use, place of residence, academic division, college class, and sex. Place of residence was the strongest predictor, with students who live in private off campus housing using the most drugs with the greatest frequency. (Author)

It was concluded that, at best, self-presentation effects are weak and unobserved by the current investigators (Beta error), or at worst the result of extraneous sources of variation. (Author)

The Ss reporting serious suicidal behavior in the self reported significantly more suicidal behavior in others, including relatives. Significant subgroup differences were present which suggest the possibility of a repression-sensitization continuum. (Author)

Much research in the field of moral behaviour is vitiated by the prevalence among researchers of a behaviouristic conception of motivation which ignores the importance of reasons in guiding behaviour. Its is argued that this neglect is dangerous and that researchers must take more account of them if their work is to have real relevance for moral…

Fear of personal change makes many beginning counselors resist the help and guidance offered them in the practicum setting, often leaving their supervisors perplexed and frustrated. Types of resistance used by counselors are examined in this article. Methods and techniques available to supervisors in dealing with such resistance are discussed.…

The results of the study indicate that sensitivity training does produce positive behavioral changes. (Author)

Responses of 15 attending adults to more than 800 samples of behavior of 49 ambulatory institutionalized young retarded children were recorded. (Author)

For both boys and girls, all adolescent effects are reversals of significant preadolescent effects. These reversals, predictive of adult health, can be commonly described as a change from a relatively tension-free or conflict-free preadolescence to a reactive and stressful adolescence. (Author)

The MMPI profile pattern, described here, entailed a behavior pattern that includes hostile-aggressive acting out. The frequency of this profile pattern and the social and psychological importance of the behavior pattern associated with it suggest that clinical investigators can profitably study this group of men. (Author)