Two experiments investigated whether adolescents who are considered persistently anti-social by their teachers are generally inferior in acquiring avoidance behavior. (DP)

Paper attempts to show that it is possible to help young people modify their actions in the area of risk-taking behavior through stressing the consequences of motivation. (Author/CB)

It was concluded that, at best, self-presentation effects are weak and unobserved by the current investigators (Beta error), or at worst the result of extraneous sources of variation. (Author)

Crime in America will not be effectively reduced until basic changes are made in the structure and quality of life--respect for law and order will not be restored until respect for the nature of society is restored. (Author/JB)

Argues that substitution of methadone for heroin would not rehabilitate the drug addict, but it may be used as a method of tranquilizing a potentially troublesome ghetto and poor white population. (RJ)

The present study suggests that there is no apparent reason why behavioral problems would remain constant across age, for it is generally believed that maturation leads to greater impulse control. (Author)

The data are taken as an indication that the sweeping generalization that male homosexuals have a preference for objects of the same sex, which has its basis in a high expectancy for negative reinforcement from female figures, may be in need of qualification or revision. (Author)

Several general findings emerged: (a) a combination of typological pattern and magnitude of dimensional scores rather than either factor alone was a better predictor of future recidivism, and (b) among milder delinquent types, race may be operating as a bias in determining incarceration. (Author)

The MMPI profile pattern, described here, entailed a behavior pattern that includes hostile-aggressive acting out. The frequency of this profile pattern and the social and psychological importance of the behavior pattern associated with it suggest that clinical investigators can profitably study this group of men. (Author)

Explains the need for an expert in quelling violence and explains how this expert would operate. (Author)

Results of the data presented suggest that there is considerable experimentation among college students with illegal drugs, especially marijuana. Their attitudes toward other drugs still seems cautious. Marijuana, however, seems-to be accepted and generally positively evaluated. (Author)

Author examines change in social attitudes, not so much toward engaging in deviant sex practices as in accepting them. He feels that while such practices between consenting adults, performed in private, should not be subject to legal scrutiny, neither should they be institutionalized lest they further destroy the concept of family. Presented at…

Principles of psychology are applied to scenes of campus disturbances and administrative guidelines are recommended. (Author)