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Need for Approval and Susceptibility to Unintended Social Influence
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Smith, Ronald E.; Flenning, Frank – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
In a Rosenthal-type experimental situation, this study found that Ss high in need for approval demonstrated a significant susceptibility to E expectancy effects, while low-approval motivation Ss did not. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship, Needs, Psychological Characteristics
Sex and Loneliness
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Fink, Paul Jay; And Others – Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 1971
A roundtable of physicians discuss the ways in which lonely people, both men and women, use sexual activity as an outlet for their need to be needed," usually with unsatisfactory results. (CJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Individual Needs, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship
Dimensions of Trait Preferences and Personality Type
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Posavac, Emil J. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Conformity
Race and Belief Similarity as Determinants of Attraction
Hendrick, Clyde; Hawkins, Gayle – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship
The Defensive Function of Projection
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Holmes, David S.; Houston, B. Kent – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
Men's and Women's Satisfying and Frustrating Experiences in Close Relationship Interactions.
Friedland, Randi – 1982
Clinicians and family theorists have speculated that men and women differ in their orientations to close relationships, although these stereotypic patterns have not been investigated empirically. To determine whether people's interactional experiences are characterized by distinctive, sex-linked orientations to expressiveness and caring, 252 men…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response
An Attachment Model of Sibling Helping Behavior in Old Age.
Cicirelli, Victor G. – 1982
Sibling relationships are not only maintained throughout life in most cases, but assume considerable importance in old age. Siblings provide psychological support for each other as well as more tangible forms of helping and caregiving. In order to investigate variables leading to sibling help in the area of psychological support, a path model…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response, Gerontology