Reviews evidence pertaining to urban-nonurban differences in social behavior and considers the predictive value of four urban impact models. Also considers within-city differences and between-culture differences in urban behavior. Presents data from a case study of urban rural differences in Turkey. (Author/GC)

Videotapes of spontaneous facial and gestural reactions to affective slides were segmented by male and female college students using a group adaptation of Newtson's unitization technique. (Author/SS)

Summarizes current research regarding the influence of cognition (things people think and feel) in the understanding of human social behavior. Discussed are experiments in attribution, social perception, self-concept, and attitude change which contribute to the author's point that the cognitive theme is becoming a unifying phenomenon in social…

Infant-toy and infant-adult interaction were observed in four conditions which varied the degree of adult-toy manipulation. Subjects were 48 infants 11-13 months of age. (Author/SS)

Investigates infant preferences for interaction with mother v father, similarities and differences in maternal and paternal behavior, and the influence of a second parent's presence on parent-infant interaction. Families with infants 15 months of age were observed in their own homes. (Author/SS)

Examines the social behavior of withdrawn and aggressive girls, taking gaze as dependent measure. It was predicted that (1) withdrawn children will gaze less than aggressive children but that (2) the difference will be marked only in discussions of personal matters. Twenty girls aged 12-15 were selected from two schools for maladusted children in…

Results of a study conducted with 721 fourth, sixth, and eighth graders were not supportive of the assumed role of children's perceived reality of television in determining the impact of exposure to television on children's social behavior. (GT)

Provides results consistent with a model of social cognition. Emphasizes the relative saliency of situational factors relating to deservedness in the sharing situation. (Author/RL)

The current and lifetime prevalence of heterosexual cohabitation are examined for 2,510 young men. It would appear that neither cohabitation nor marriage had reached a peak in terms of prevalence among the young men born in the years 1944 through 1954. (Author)

As adoptions have increased, they have become less concentrated among women unable to bear children, although these women are still more likely to adopt than are fertile women. About 4 percent of American women have adopted a child by the time they are 45 years old. (Author)

Conditions of continual change have led to an emergence of the human behavioral sciences and a deeper understanding of the complexity of human behavior; there is an increasing recognition that a more flexible and transcending leisure philosophical perspective is needed. (JD)

It is concluded that ethnic criteria are of relatively little weight in mutual evaluations of Japanese and Caucasians, and it is suggested that this is reflected in the lack of behavioral conflict between these groups in Hawaii. (Author)

Subjects were trained in three targeted skills. Game training produced large and consistent gains in all target responses however, no generalization was recorded in covert assessments. Subsequently, an in-situ training procedure consisting of intermittent verbal prompts and reinforcement was used, which significantly increased use of skills in all…

Social norm feedback is a promising strategy for reducing alcohol misuse on college campuses. Examines the effects of a campus-wide media campaign on Division I student-athletes at three universities. Results indicate that the campaign-exposed group reported more conservative estimates of alcohol use in peers. However, there was no evidence that…