In attempting to clarify the possibility of interview effect about sexual information and behavior, results showed that the effect on attitudes was a tendency toward greater reflection on the part of the participant, but the effect on behavior was negligible. (Author/BY)

Forty female subjects were selected and assigned to four treatment groups matched for past and anticipated disclosure rate. Treatments differed only in the length of the interviewer's remarks on 20 topics. A significant positive relationship was found between the length of time the experimenter spoke and the duration of the subjects' utterances.…

Results indicated that both male and female smokers perceived themselves as failing to meet the expectations of their parents and school. On the other hand, nonsmokers perceived themselves as more nearly meeting these expectations. (Author)

By monitoring skin conductance and heart rate of 19 psychopathic, 21 neurotic, and 26 normal juvenile delinquents, it was concluded that the psychopathic autonomic characteristics resides in lower initial reactivity and not in more rapid adaptation, at least in response to a simple auditory stimulus. (Author/KJ)

The question of whether it is the subject or the investigator who is deceived is discussed relative to McFall's study on the effect of self monitoring on smoking behavior. Perhaps the results should be evaluated by the subject rather than by the investigator. (KJ)

This paper discusses some methodological, clinical and theoretical issues in the use of self observation raised in an experiment by McFall. (Author)

Findings are consistent with the hypothesis of an input processing deficit in autistic children. Autistic children were insensitive to differences in the structures present and tended to impose their own simple stereotyped patterns. Normal children imposed such patterns in the absence of structured input only. Paper reports work which has been…

Among the results of the study on differing occupational interests of persistors and nonpersistors are: (1) successful persisters have engineering related interests and reject Social Service Interest: (2) successful transfers have verbally expressive and leadership interest and reject technical interest. (Author)

It was expected that children with high as compared to low SD would state overly cautious bids suggesting low expectancy for success, and would adopt a failure avoiding pattern of Rotter's level of aspiration task. The results support the hypotheses on SD and cautious, failure avoiding behavior. Age must be carefully controlled. (CJ)