This study obtained a tentative assessment of the impact on college students of being involved in a decision-making process. Tentative findings indicate a positive relationship between involvement in the decision making process and opportunities to participate and knowledge of the decision-making process. (Author)

Examined the applicability of an expectancy/decison model to assertiveness in a nonclinical population. Results suggest that participants consider the consequences of being assertive when making a decision about how to behave. Training programs should take into account the participant's perceptions of the risks involved in being assertive.…

Compared the 40 "best" (most congruent with values) and 40 "worst" decision makers on the Career Decision Simulation. The "best" decision makers were significantly more persistent in immediately seeking information about an occupation that seemed to match one of their most important personal work values. (Author)

This study investigates the relationship between selected characteristics of student judicial board members and a comparison group and their decisions in simulated undergraduate discipline cases. Results showed some individual differences in dogmatism, self-students discrepancy, and moral judgment for the criterion variables of responsibility…

Observations of the career decision-making (CDM) behaviors of college students were analyzed to investigate how variations in the CDM process may be associated with sex and "sex-typed" values. Data were collected from records of students' interaction with the computer-based System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) to look…

A problem solving course designed to expose the student to the wide range of alternative problem solving techniques and to enable the student to use these methods in practical applications was developed at the University of California at Los Angeles. The course also exposes the humanities student to objective tools such as numerical models, while…