A campus blood donation drive provided an opportunity to examine the variables of family occupational type as a milieu for the socialization of altruism, appeal style stressing equity or dependency, and sex-role attitude (traditional and nontraditional) in influencing helping behavior. (Editor)

Examines the effects of cage size on stereotyped and normal locomotion and on other abnormal behaviors in singly caged animals, whether observed abnormal behaviors tend to co-occur, and if the development of an abnormal behavior repertoire leads to reduction in the number of normal behavior categories. (Author/RK)

Article considered newly emerging evidence regarding the character of delinquency in general and modifications of female sex roles which challenge popular notions about the quality and quantity of the sexual distribution of delinquent acts. (Author/RK)

The major premise of the current study is that subjects with high self-esteem scores plus high Marlowe-Crowne scores should show behavior patterns similar to those of low self-esteem subjects. (Author)

Although descriptive and etiological approaches to psychopathology have made notable advances, they seem to have reached a plateau. After reviewing the six approaches to etiology that now preempt the field--ecological, developmental, learning, genetic, internal environment, and neurophysiological models--a second-order model, vulnerability, is…

Two experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between stress level and learned helplessness in human subjects. Experiment 1 subjected subjects to loud or moderate noise in order to induce differential stress. Experiment 2 was a partial replication of the first study using only loud noise. (Editor/RK)

This study investigated the merits of various theoretical rationales for predicting viewers' affective responses to the expressed emotions of a protagonist. (Editor)

Findings are discussed in the light of social-learning theory. (Authors)