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The Prediction of Impulsive Behavior: Comparative Validities of Obvious vs. Subtle MMPI Hypomania (MA) Items.
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Hovanitz, Christine A.; Gynther, Malcolm D. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Assessed the relative predictive validity of obvious (O), neutral (N), and subtle (S) items of the MMPI MA scale for 86 males. Subtle-obvious ratings were compared to criteria in questionnaire, life-history, and objective tests. Correlations among the criteria were generally insignificant, suggesting that hypomania is not a homogeneous construct.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conceptual Tempo, Predictive Validity, Predictor Variables
Response Resistance to Punishment and Extinction as a Function of Instructions Manipulating Informative Properties of Blank Trials
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Vogel-Sprott, M. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Learning Processes, Performance Factors
Communication Responsiveness and Predictive Accuracy: Confirmations, Surprises, and Speculations.
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Hughey, Jim D. – 1984
Four studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between communication and predictive accuracy. Subjects, students enrolled in various college speech and communication classes, completed the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values, first in terms of their own values and then in terms of how they believed a specified target would respond.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research, Higher Education
Some Restrictive Conditions for the Occurrence of Psychological Reactance
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Grabitz-Gniech, Gisla – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Attempts to relate psychological reactance and conformity and concludes that the social situation and personality factors necessarily play a part in specifications of the psychological reactance concept. (MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conformity, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences
Validation of Feeling, Belief, and Intention to Act as Three Components of Attitude and Their Contribution to Prediction of Contraceptive Behavior
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Kothandapani, Virupaksha – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
An Examination of the "Other Variables" Explanation of Attitude-Behavior Inconsistency
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Wicker, Allan W. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Church Role
Sources of Variance in Responses to Questionnaires and in Behavior
Moos, Rudolf H. – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Milieu Therapy, Patients
Q by Q Interview as a Predictor of Success in Second Language Learning
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Asher, James J. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Employment Interviews, Expectation, Measurement Instruments
Attractiveness of Old Alternatives When a New, Attractive Alternative Is Introduced
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Brehm, Jack W.; Rozen, Elena – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes
Psychic Cost of Adaptation to an Environmental Stressor
Glass, David C.; and others – J Personality Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Auditory Perception, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Self-Referent Behavior
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Touhey, John C. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Individual Characteristics