Subjects were 18 mothers and their clinic-referred children. A stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that two maternal behaviors, beta commands and total rewards, displayed in the clinic were the best predictors of child compliance in the home. (Author)

Concludes that expectancy-violation (when audience does not expect the position a communicator advocates) enhances persuasive effectiveness more than similarity or unexpected similarity. (RL)

High self-esteem students show significantly greater mastery of all learning tasks than lower self-concept counterparts. (MJB)

In the main body of this study, detailed attention is given to patient management practices and organizational factors that encourage dependent behavior that can be characterized as senile. (Author)

Bureaucratic work situations, particularly those with commercial goals, rationalize not only people's work tasks, but their social demeanor and behavior. This study examines the impact of such rationalization of appearance and interaction on clerical workers in several branches of a large bank. (Author/AM)

In the first study reported most American norms governing reactions to self-disclosure to friends and strangers were replicated. In the second study American norms governing self-disclosure to males and females were not replicated. (Author/AM)

Determines the relationship between degree of authoritarianism exhibited by an advertising executive and his desire to use black models in his ads. The hypothesis states that high authoritarian advertising executives will report less use of black models in their ads than will lesser authoritarians. (Author/AM)

Unlike many other employment programs, TOPS offered substantial improvement over secondary labor market jobs, and changed radically in opportunity structure during the course of its operation. Trainee reactions to the extreme changes in program structure indicated that the behavioral patterns of disadvantaged minority employees are closely tied to…

From questionnaires completed by parents and teachers and clinical assessment by a physician, 223 school age children were evaluated for childhood depression and its relationship to hyperactivity. (Author)

Analyzes the structure of relationships between streaking faddists on the campus and elsewhere in the country and the conditions, including the actions of the university officials, which gave rise to the fad on the campus and ultimately led to its termination. (Author/AM)

Data from a national survey of 375,000 persons show that, when only victims are considered, elderly victims are more likely than victims of other ages to suffer from predatory crimes and to be attacked by unarmed, young black male strangers. (Author)

Provided for regular and special class teachers is a list of questions for observing student behavior in eight areas: independent work, organization, written work, teacher-directed activities, oral language, cafeteria behavior, relationship with peers and motor ability. (CL)

Using "talk time" measures of spouse/stranger interaction styles, tested models of communication. Concluded that (1) a spillover interactionist model best represented the talk time data; (2) sex had no apparent effect on speaking with either a spouse or a stranger; and (3) few personality variables predicted talk time, though relationship…

Compared nocturnal sleep structure of 10 healthy elderly nuns to that of 10 healthy age-matched female controls. The nuns fell asleep more quickly and had less early morning awakening, as well as greater rapid eye movement sleep time. These differences may reflect the more highly entrained life style of the nuns, including modest habitual sleep…

Preschoolers' normative patterns, individual styles, and developmental changes in coping with anger between others (background anger) were examined. Pairs of children were observed playing while two adults in an adjacent room verbally expressed anger toward each other. Children were also interviewed concerning the feelings they had during the…