A survey of college students in a southern university was conducted to ascertain the extent of change in sexual behavior and attitudes from data gathered five years ago. The major changes in reported incidence of premarital coitus and petting were manifested by females with males remaining approximately the same. (Author)

Study results indicated that schizophrenics who shocked themselves upon experiencing auditory hallucinations failed to show significantly greater improvement than the control group. Thus the general conclusion drawn is that conditioning did not appear to be the mechanism by which most of the significant therapeutic changes occurred. (Author)

This paper presents a behavioristic view of how persons acquire knowledge of their psychological characteristics and examines counseling from his framework. Persons infer underlying motivational characteristics to account for actions they assign to personal causes. Assignment of cause is based on social comparison and counseling provides such…

Among the findings were that PKU Children judged to be emotionally disturbed and inadequate in communication performed more poorly than those PKU children judged nondisturbed and more adequate in communication under two of the three social stimulus interaction condictions. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to explore the conceptual scheme of the taxonomy within a conventional achievement oriented public school classroom by means of techniques that permitted a distinction between item difficulty and item complexity. (Author)

This study attempted to ascertain whether selected personality and situational variables were predictive of the relative rationality of a subject's response to organizational change. (Author)

The results indicate that more cooperative behavior is induced in the listener when invariant warmth is expressed, while more cooperative behavior is induced in the actor when invariant anger or anger followed by warmth is expressed. (Author)

This paper is based upon a doctoral dissertation submitted to Stanford University.

Parents' views of appropriate rules and behavior in teenage courtship were examined. Consideration was given to differences between democratic and autocratic attitudes concerning dating rules and teenage sexual behavior. The data indicated that parents whether evidencing a democratic or autocratic life style, essentially expressed conservative…

A review of The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change (Allyn and Bacon, 1971) by Seymour B. Sarason. (CK)