People with disabilities completed four survey questionnaires. Data collected from "Stress Appraisal Inventory for Life Situations" instrument resulted in five components that became the basis for the stress appraisal process identified in this study. Findings indicate certain subjective meanings that people with disabilities attribute…

Describes variation on role plays used in counselor education classes that teach lessons about the counseling process. (Author/CM)

Results of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory data were correlated to see if they were related to demographic and behavioral data. Analysis was done for male and female subjects. A significant number of reliable correlates were identified. (Author/EK)

Research on crime and delinquents is generally studying norm-violating behavior outside of its social context. Building on Hartshorne and May's use of situational tests, the authors sought to study the major contributing variables to norm-violating behavior in a laboratory setting. Two groups of subjects were used: (1) 116 male college students;…

Since many acts of aggression in society are more than simply an aggressor-victim encounter, the role played by third person instigated aggression also needs examination. The purpose of this study was to develop a laboratory procedure to systematically investigate instigation. In a competitive reaction time task, high and low Machiavellian Males…

This exploratory study attempted to identify variables in need of further investigation. Those to emerge included heuristics or rules of thumb used by administrators in decision making, personality variables, and methods for evaluating alternatives. (Author/JM)

Tested the person-by-situation model. State anxiety was assessed prior to a routine training session and before a track meet. Trait anxiety was measured after the training session. There was a significant interaction between social evaluation trait anxiety and the meet situation. (Author)

Tests the cross-situational consistency of the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA). Subjects completed the PRCA and then reported how much anxiety they would feel or have felt in 35 situations. No evidence of cross-situational consistency was found for the two independent classes of anxiety-producing situations. (JMF)

Results of this investigation suggest that moral reasoning of college students, when assessed using the DIT format, is the same whether the dilemmas involve hypothetical or actual situations. Subjects, when presented with hypothetical situations, become deeply immersed in them and respond as if they were actual participants. (Author/BEF)

Assesses the ability of four-year-old children to judge certain social situations from the facial expressions of peers. The children were presented with soundless videotapes of the face and upper torso of classmates and unknown peers interacting with peers and adults who were strange or familiar. (JMB)

In three experiments we studied lay observers' attributions of responsibility for an antisocial act (homicide). We systematically varied both the degree to which the action was coerced by external circumstances and the degree to which the actor endorsed and accepted ownership of the act, a psychological state that philosophers have termed…

Part of this research was presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association convention (Chicago, 1967).

This study tests the hypothesis that persons will express relatively independent degrees of preference for ambiguity in different experiential domains. An original measure consisting of four subscales was developed to assess individual differences in the theoretical, social, economic and aesthetic domains, and was administered to a student sample.…

The results show that subjects show more attitude change towards, and acceptance of, the positions on the same side of the issue than on the opposite side of the issue but that their preference is most marked where a high discrepancy exists between communicator and recipient of the opinion. (Author/DEP)