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Kogan, Nathan – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1974
Article evaluated the creative abilities of men and women with specific accent of sex as a matter of decisive influence on creative output. (RK)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Creativity, Divergent Thinking, Educational Research
Spillman, Bonnie; And Others – 1980
The influence of sex and androgyny on the emergence of small group leadership was studied. The subjects, 38 male and 28 female college students, were pretested on several personality measures, including Sargent and Miller's Leadership Questionnaire and Bem's Sex Role Inventory. Leadership in task and social situations was measured after four group…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research, Females
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Leventhal, Gerald S. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Birth Order, College Students
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Stricker, Lawrence J.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1970
Examines response to group pressure involving different judgments and social situations. One bipolar dimension included conformity and anticonformity, the other, conformity and independence. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Conformity, Decision Making
Shade, Barbara J. – 1979
Behavioral differences have often been noted between blacks and whites. These differences seem to be associated with the perception and interpretation of the environment and the subsequent selection of the appropriate adapting strategies. This is a socialized difference which is best explained by the concept of psychological differentiation or…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Blacks, Cognitive Style, Females
West, Lloyd W. – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
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Hogan, H. Wayne; McWilliams, Jettie M. – Journal of Psychology, 1978
Provides data to further support the notions that females score higher in self-actualization measures and that self-actualization scores correlate inversely to the degree of undesirability individuals assign to their heights and weights. Finds that, contrary to predictions, greater androgyny was related to lower, not higher, self-actualization…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavioral Science Research, Body Image, Females
Harris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S. – 1977
The relationship between external reinforcement of behavior and depression is explored. Specifically, the psychological study measures the role of cognition in depression by comparing decision-making problems, lack of assertiveness, and perceptions of control in male and female undergraduate college students and psychiatric patients. It was…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis