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Norman, Nancy; And Others – 1982
Research shows that people comply more frequently to threats when the credibility of the source is high rather than low and that compliance is directly related to punishment magnitude. To examine the impact of an advisor on a target of threats, male college students (N=74) participated in an experiment that included high or low threatner…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Credibility, Higher Education
Flammer, August; And Others – 1975
The experiment described in this paper is concerned with prose learning. In the field of the psychology of learning, a section was arbitrarily chosen and covered by 21 passages of equal length. Six contained the essential information concerning the six keywords (elements) of the domain. The fifteen others dealt with all possible relationships…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Jacobs, M. Kathryne – 1976
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate an experimental procedure which lends itself to the controlled study of adult moral behavior. The procedure is a variation of Prisoner's Dilemma, a game widely used for the study of conflict resolution. The conflict generated by the game is both interpersonal and intrapersonal. The key issue in the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Conflict Resolution, Contracts

Howard, George S.; Myers, Paul R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1990
Discusses why agentic and idiographic approaches (in combination with more typical nomothetic, nonagentic studies) may enhance the predictive accuracy of psychological experiments. Presents study on exercise behavior of 42 college student subjects and analyzes it from 3 perspectives: nonagentic-nomothetic, nonagentic-idiographic, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Exercise, Higher Education
Follert, Vincent F. – 1982
Based on research indicating that restrictive judicial language directed at jurors encourages reactance, or decisions contrary to the judge's instructions, two experiments were conducted to determine whether courtroom jurors merely admonished to ignore inadmissible evidence would be more inclined to comply with judicial instructions than would…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Court Judges, Court Litigation
Maroldo, G. K.; And Others – 1975
This experiment determined relationships between Machiavellianism, locus of control, and cognitive style. One hundred fifteen subjects, 56 males and 59 females, ages 18 to 21, were selected from Interim students at Texas Lutheran College, Sequin, Texas. The Mach IV test measured Machiavellian tendencies. The I-E scale measured external attitudes.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis

Snyder, Thomas L.; And Others – Journal of American College Health, 1982
A study explored attitudes and perceptions that may influence how University of Maryland students utilize dental services. Significant variables included: (1) students' attitudes toward dentists; (2) mother's visits to dentists; (3) dental problems experienced the previous year; (4) dental anxiety; (5) sex; and (6) perceptions of the number and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Dental Health, Dentistry
Pearce, W. Barnett – 1973
Communication between persons who trust each other differs from that between those who do not. A new conceptualization of trust is offered, drawing from game theory, credibility research, sensitivity/encounter groups, and studies of generalized expectations of trustworthiness, which makes an important distinction between the cognitive state of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Larkin, Judith E.; Pines, Harvey A. – 1992
High and low self-monitors were given the task of applying for a position that was or was not a good fit with their personality. Subjects were 97 introductory psychology students who had previously taken the 18-item Self-Monitoring Scale (SMS). They took the SMS again--as if it were being used to decide whether they would be offered a very…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Career Education, College Students