The image of the artist presented on TV shows is that of a villainous psychotic. (JH)

Investigates the hypothesis that people with last names beginning with the letters "S" through "Z" are 50 percent more neurotic than those people in the "A" through "R" group. The author's research does not support this hypothesis. (HMV)

Subjects' willingness to endorse "universally valid" statements as accurate and meaningful has been demonstrated on repeated occasions. This study investigates whether this "Barnum" effect is best attributed to the prestige of psychologists or to the nature of the statements themselves. (Author)

This study examined the relationship between the severity of negative consequences of a blameworthy behavior and attribution of responsibility for that behavior. (Author)

Chapter 6 in Life Skills in School and Society

Discrepancies are discussed which exist in establishing criteria for defining incest and for reporting accurate data on its incidence. Etiological issues of individual and familial pathological patterns are examined, as well as the short- and long-term consequences of incestuous events as they affect the victim and other family members. Treatment…

Changes in family relations that result from concurrent life-cycle changes of middle-aged parents and their adolescent offspring are discussed in this pamphlet. A perspective on the young adolescent's family is offered that conceptualizes the family as both systemic and developmental. Key changes in adolescence and mid-life are outlined and these…

This publication provides an overview of the most recent ideas on psychological stress and ways to reduce it, with particular attention to the impact of stress on administrative personnel. Major sections of the publication focus on the nature of the educational administrator's job, definitions of stress, responses to stress, consequences of…

The psychological effects of exercise training are difficult to study in humans, but analogous emotionality changes in animals can be studied using simple measurements employed in emergence and open-field tests. The basis of these tests is that animals that are more emotional are more fearful when placed in a novel situation and will exhibit less…

This study obtains evidence for the effect of time of day on learning in a stressful situation. A series of five experiments were performed to assess the effects of this variable on learning using albino rat subjects. None of the experiments provide overwhelming evidence for the effect of time of day when taken alone and each leaves questions…

This research study is a continuation of the work on Instructional Flexibility Training (IFT) developed by Joyce and Hodges. It attempts to discover if the use of IFT helped student teachers control the flexibility of their teaching styles, whether they could employ a variety of teaching models, and whether the conceptual ability of the teacher…