Surveys empirical research with regard to cohabitation. The major consequences of cohabitation are identified for five groups: (1) never-married cohabiting couples; (2) children of cohabitants; (3) society; (4) previously married cohabitating couples; and (5) elderly cohabitants. Current legal trends are also discussed and recommendations for…

Only recently have imitation researchers turned their attention to the effects on the model of being imitated by observers. This report outlines and reviews the findings of research in the developing paradigms. Four paradigms into the effects of being imitated are examined briefly: (1) operant strengthening paradigm; (2) classical conditioning…

Feminist awareness of sexism is leading to a re-evaluation of the importance of women's relationships with each other and to a new awareness that in those relationships there is an enormous potential for mutual support. But women's relationships with women have not only been based on the unconscious assumption of a shared second rate status, they…

Approximately 1,500 published and unpublished books and articles are listed in this bibliography on the broad area of observational learning in children which includes modeling, imitation, and vicarious conditioning. The majority of sources listed are dated from the 1960's and 1970's although some date as far back as the 1930's. Research in such…