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A Modest Proposal for Control of Prejudice and Group Aggression
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Lester, David – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Notes that much human activity is monotonous, arduous, or degrading and that most low-caste groups eventually revolt. Suggests that humans use chimpanzees as a permanent minority group that will serve simultaneously as laborers and scapegoats. (MB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Bias
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
Personality Patterns Associated with Heavy Cigarette Smoking in Male College Students
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Jacobs, Martin A.; Spilken, Aron Z. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Individual Needs
Sexual Patterns at Different Ages
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Kaplan, Helen S.; Sager, Clifford J. – Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 1971
When not understood as normal consequences of growth and aging, sexual fluctuations can be the source of personal and marital distress. Discussed are sexual behavior norms as they change from infancy to old age. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Biology, Individual Needs
Personality Dynamics in a Military Training Command and Its Relationship to Maslow's Motivation Hierarch
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Trexler, Jerome T.; Schuh, Allen J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1971
Questionnaire data pertaining to perceived need deficiencies were analyzed to test the concept of a hierarchy of need levels (Maslow's theory). Significant experimental control" differences were not found until deprivation was experienced by the experimental group. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Individual Needs, Military Personnel
Interests and Stimulus Seeking
Kish, George B.; Donnenwerth, Gregory V. – J Counseling Psychol, 1969
Examines relationships between Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) and vocational interests measured by the Kuder and Strong Vocational Interest Blank, among alcoholics and undergraduates. Results support construct validity of the SSS and provide further evidence of modes of expression of stimulus-seeking needs in personality. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Career Choice, Individual Needs
Verbal Response Stereotypy as a Function of Psychological and Physiological Drive
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Vellutino, Frank R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Individual Differences, Individual Needs
Self Esteem and Sex
Schimel, John L. – Sexual Behavior, 1971
Self esteem in both the male and female is seen as a need more basic than sexual activity. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Individual Needs, Individual Psychology
Avocational Sensation Seeking in High and Low Risk-Taking Occupations
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Musolino, Robert F.; Hershenson, David B. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
This study investigated whether people engaged in high risk-taking occupations would seek or prefer highly stimulating activities of a nonvocational nature more than people engaged in low risk-taking occupations. The high risk-taking group scored significantly higher than the low risk-taking group on all five dimensions of the Zuckerman Sensation…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response
Behavioral Choice as a Function of Novelty-Seeking and Anxiety-Avoidance Motivations
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McReynolds, Paul – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Paradoxes and Quirks in Human Communications Behavior and Some Explanatory Theories.
Haskins, Jack B. – 1981
A literature review of communications, psychological, physiological and other sociobehavioral research literature reveals a number of paradoxes regarding the emphasis by information gatekeepers, media, and audiences on messages that are negative, critical, pessimistic, conflict-and-tension-producing, skeptical, punitive, threatening,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research, Individual Needs