This four-year longitudinal study explored the utility of a unidimensional schema based upon the concept of an implicit value system (Protestant ethic-hedonistic continuum) and found that the conceptual simplicity and utility of the model warranted consideration of its use over the more complex multidimensional approaches. (MJB)

This paper is based on an address given at the Nineteenth Congress of the International Union of Scientific Psychology at Tokyo in August, 1972. Some steps toward a new paradigm are described in the form of seven koan. (Author/JB)

Examines the relationship between speech anxiety and the demographic variables of age, training, experience, sex, and birth order. (MH)

Described is the SICCS model (Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System) for systematically analyzing behaviors associated with creativity. (DB)

Suggests and tests a model of value argument which is intended to determine the degree of audience adherence to particular value claims. Discusses the process for advance selection of the most effective evidence to support value claims. (MH)

Behavioral studies of early visual development are interpreted within a framework provided by data from the neurosciences. Conclusions concerning the visual responses elicited during the first month of life and the more sophisticated reactions appearing during the second and third months of infancy are presented. (Author/SDH)

Focuses on audience dependency on media as information resources and discusses alteration of audience beliefs, behavior, or feelings as a result of mass communicated information. (MH)

Among the phenomena covered are superstitious behavior, learned helplessness, experimental neurosis, anaclitic depression as a result of maternal separation, and physiological disturbances such as ulceration. (Author/AM)

This paper attempts to clarify some of the misunderstandings which have arisen in relation to a behavior analysis of child development. Five frequent criticisms of the approach are discussed. The first concerns the confusion of behavior analysis with learning theories. Although many of the concepts of behavior analysis arose from learning…

Reports the theoretical development and testing of a causal model of communication patterns of foreign immigrants in the process of acculturation. (Author)

Provides an empirical basis for the proposition that predisposition to communicate is dependent upon the level of ego-involvement, the reception of either an anxiety- or a nonanxiety-arousing discrepant message, and the opportunity to affiliate. (MH)

A policy-oriented approach to law based on: law as one of many policy instruments, and, policy analysis (extension of systems analysis) as the methodology for identifying combinations of instruments to direct change. Behavioral study is discussed as essential part of the broad policy-making framework. (SE)