The content of the situation is more important in the choice of courses of action than the pressures of either parents or peers, and parent peer orientations have a systematic, but minimal influence, on choice. (Author)

Tentative interpretation of results is that client centered group counseling is an inappropriate treatment approach with students of elementary school age. It places unrealistic demands on preadolescents to assume responsibility, and initiative, especially for verbalizing. (Author)

The research reported here has suggested some directions for future research designed to specify those environmental conditions that are most likely to lead to growth in internal control among children. (Author)

This article contrasts with a sample of college students the youthful members of two expressively alienated forms of nonconformity: student activists committed to confrontation tactics to force social change and disaffiliated college dropouts withdrawn from incompatible social conditions. (Author)

The research on cognitive style suggests that there is tremendous variability in the way in which individuals process information and hence in the manner in which they approach individualized instructional programs. (Author)

Despite the fact that the theory is good, the personnel officer must accept the disappointment that not all employees are yet able to accept its blessings and that not all managers are yet able to dispense it. (Author/EK)

Drawing upon results of interviews with 522 policemen in the black ghettos of 13 major cities in Spring, 1958, the authors speculate that by far most" of the white policeman's perception of black hostility is a projection of his own fears and prejudices, not legitimate reaction to actual hostility. (DB)

A study of doctrinaire rhetoric and extremism which notes consistent patterns of thought and of audience-speaker interaction amoung diverse doctrinaire groups. Concludes that doctrine shapes rhetorical styles as well as content and suggests the possibility of interpreting and evaluating social phenomena through the analysis of rehetoric. (JB)

The present study extends the understanding of the level of emotional arousal produced by T Groups by providing a comparison with the college examination. (Author)

The author points out a malaise among a significant portion of white male workers in America and suggests a need for programs that combine improved counseling and education efforts designed to improve the work lives and social environment of the contemporary generation of men and women. (Author)