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Houston, Sara – Research in Dance Education, 2009
The article examines the experience of participating in Contact Improvisation by male prisoners. It specifically focuses on issues of touch for this participant group and how inmates can learn different ways of acting from acquiring Contact skills, contributing to their rehabilitation. The paper looks at the culture in prisons that propagates a…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Males, Correctional Institutions, Dance Education
Walker, Alexis J. – 1981
Theorists have predicted that individuals in a relationship initially follow social norms and later follow the mutually-agreed-upon norms which have evolved from the relationship. Since social norms prescribe sex-stereotyped behavior, an androgynous person may initially behave in a sex-typed way. Same-sex pairs (N=26) of undergraduates, matched on…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavior Change, Behavior Standards, Congruence (Psychology)