In the main body of this study, detailed attention is given to patient management practices and organizational factors that encourage dependent behavior that can be characterized as senile. (Author)

Bureaucratic work situations, particularly those with commercial goals, rationalize not only people's work tasks, but their social demeanor and behavior. This study examines the impact of such rationalization of appearance and interaction on clerical workers in several branches of a large bank. (Author/AM)

This article seeks evidence for a developmental process in childhood deviance. (Author)

Data are presented to support the Paired Hands Test (PHT) as a valid measure of the others-concept in children. This construct is defined as a person's general expectancies or perceptions about other people along a positive-negative continuum. (Author/MV)

In the first study reported most American norms governing reactions to self-disclosure to friends and strangers were replicated. In the second study American norms governing self-disclosure to males and females were not replicated. (Author/AM)

Determines the relationship between degree of authoritarianism exhibited by an advertising executive and his desire to use black models in his ads. The hypothesis states that high authoritarian advertising executives will report less use of black models in their ads than will lesser authoritarians. (Author/AM)

This paper presents the results of a medical-social questionnaire made by members of the Scientific Commission of the First International Congress of Drug Addiction Among University Students, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1974. (Author)

This study developed a Drug Involvement Classification for a general population. The classification took into consideration the following: type of drug used, legality, frequency and recency of drug use, number and combinations of drug used. The classification was developed from a New York State survey conducted in 1970. (Author)

Describes ways in which sociobiology can throw some light on the study of ethics, including recognition of the fact that human behavior, culture, and ethics do not exist in a biological vacuum. Topics discussed are sociobiology as ideology, culture and genes, and enlightened self interest. For journal availability, see SO 505 653. (Author/DB)

Seventy-six preschool children were given instructions designed to evoke a positive, negative, or neutral mood; they were subsequently given a choice between an immediately available but less perferred reward or a delayed, preferred reward. (BRT)

Unlike many other employment programs, TOPS offered substantial improvement over secondary labor market jobs, and changed radically in opportunity structure during the course of its operation. Trainee reactions to the extreme changes in program structure indicated that the behavioral patterns of disadvantaged minority employees are closely tied to…

A review of current treatment studies of pica or scavenging behavior in the mentally retarded is presented. (Author)

From questionnaires completed by parents and teachers and clinical assessment by a physician, 223 school age children were evaluated for childhood depression and its relationship to hyperactivity. (Author)

Analyzes the structure of relationships between streaking faddists on the campus and elsewhere in the country and the conditions, including the actions of the university officials, which gave rise to the fad on the campus and ultimately led to its termination. (Author/AM)

Data from a national survey of 375,000 persons show that, when only victims are considered, elderly victims are more likely than victims of other ages to suffer from predatory crimes and to be attacked by unarmed, young black male strangers. (Author)