Higher Education Student Affairs (HESA) practitioners play important roles in supporting their campus communities, specifically students, when bias incidents occur on campus. These HESA practitioners often hold the same minoritized identities as students impacted by bias and see their work in higher education as advancing missions of inclusion and…

Diversity professionals are often expected to respond to campus race-related student activism. However, little is known about how they perceive their roles and relationships, or enact strategies as they engage in this work. Informed primarily by Williams's (2013) Strategic Diversity Compass and secondarily by Critical Race Theory (CRT), we…

This study examined the nature and correlates of adolescents' perceptions of sibling influence. Participants included 2 siblings (firstborn age M = 17.34; second-born age M = 14.76 years) from 191 maritally intact families. Adolescents' perceptions of sibling influence were measured via coded responses to open-ended questions about whether their…

In order to explore the hypothesis that sex-linked biases in causal attributions, widely shared by female and male perceivers, may derive in part from the perceiver's naive sex-linked expectations regarding the potential impact of causal forces on women's and men's behavior, three experiments were carried out. The first experiment was conducted to…

Analysis of responses of 167 husbands and wives to the Blood and Wolfe family decision and job performance instrument revealed similar distributions of the two sets of responses but substantial discrepancies between spouses which appeared to be randomly distributed and offsetting, suggesting that they may be caused by perceptual differences rather…

Focuses on how clients' perceptions of consultants' motivation and behavior affect clients' reactions to consultation. Results suggested that clients demand a certain balance between personal support and understanding on the one hand, and expertise, guidance, and decisiveness on the other. (Author)

Article focused on the need for women to assume the tasks necessary to provide leadership in the educational world. (Author/RK)

Reactions to several kinds of deviant behavior were measured by a questionnaire administered to 79 students at the University of Rome (Italy), in which descriptions of acts were varied to show "good", "bad", or "unspecified" actors. (Author/NQ)

Outlines how classification systems or codes, operating in a variety of contexts, regulate the interaction between man and the built environment. Views the ritual forms of the built environment as transmitters of culture. Suggests that this framework might provide a new starting point for investigations into the built environment in use and the…

The cause underlying the shocking behavior of a university president during a campus crisis is revealed in nine letters. Suggested reading for university administrators. (WM)

Two experiments were conducted to examine self-fulfilling expectancy influence in a simulated supervisor-worker interaction. The first experiment led supervisor subjects to expect either high or low compliance from their workers. All workers completed a set of five tasks twice, once when instructed to work fast and once when instructed to work…

The study investigated the effect of perceived level of communicator expertise ( Dr.'' vs. Mr.'') and strength of advice (positive vs. neutral) on behavioral compliance with a psychologist's recommendations in two environmental settings (school and clinic). Compliance varied directly with perceived level of expertise and strength of advice. (JB)

Purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of three different groups of educational personnel toward the problems of the beginning supervisor. (Author)

Three variables in the process of educational change are examined as they relate to media specialists: timeliness, trade-off processes, and the nature of responses to demands for change. New American Association of School Librarians/Association for Educational Communications and Technology guidelines for media specialists, published in "Media…

This study sought to assess preferences for counseling response styles. Although both clients and nonclients most frequently select adjectives describing "nurturant" counselors, they have no differential preferences for response styles when these are demonstrated in scripted interactions. Neither group preferred empathic responses to other…