Investigated the relationship between loneliness and patterns of attachment in 47 college students. Results revealed a moderate to strong relationship between feeling lonely and early disrupted attachment, consistent with the notion that underlying attachment disorders may affect psychological development and social behavior. (JAC)

The present study was designed to investigate the role of self-presentation in inequity reduction. (Author)

To determine whether the reduction of retaliatory behavior by knowledge of mitigating circumstances is due to less motivation to retaliate or to an inhibition of motivated retaliation, subjects were provoked by a rude experimenter and informed of mitigating conditions. (Editor)

The present investigation seeks to establish that the hostility-reducing effect of mitigating circumstances, which has been observed under conditions of moderate arousal, will be lessened if not entirely removed under conditions of rather extreme arousal. (Author)

The results of this study of 168 first year university students are consistent with the literature and emphasized the strong motivating factor of social norms. Four characteristics of recyclers are identified using a 23-item measurement instrument--sorting, location, importance and social norms--which account for 29.7%, 14.0%, 8.9% and 7.1% of the…

This study developed a classification model for matching appropriate psychoeducational interventions with specific groups of adolescent sexual offenders. Participants were male juvenile sex offenders incarcerated as wards in the Continuum of Care Sex Offender Treatment Program of the California Department of Corrections. The treatment provided…

The approach to literacy of which Paulo Freire is the major spokesman is discussed. Presented are a theoretical overview of his approach to literacy, how literacy projects are conducted, and some reflections on the approach from the standpoint of the literacy worker. (Author/SC)

The present study is concerned primarily with demonstrating that laughter can be socially facilitated. It showed that children, presented aurally with laughter-provoking material, laugh more in the presence of a companion, whether or not the companion can hear the material. (Author/RK)

This study examined the effects of individual and interdependent reinforcement contingencies on two social behaviors (talking out and out-of-seat behavior) during English and Mathematics classes. Under the individual contingency a student was individually reinforced for his own lack of bad behaviors by free time; under the interdependent…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether self-disclosure would make a person more vulnerable to personal threat and thus increase instigation to angry aggression. (Author)

This article describes an awareness program for parents to help them understand implications of the sexual revolution and exchange ideas. (Author)

Article attempted to settle the question of whether or not the larger number of delinquents are accurately described as constituting a subculture. It also analyzes their behavior and attitudes. (Author/RK)

The results of this study indicated that attitudes and behavior toward drugs were specific to each type of drug. Also, it was clear that students, both users and nonusers strongly favored increasing the availability of drug related services such as counseling and drug education. (Author)

The study of origin and evolution of man gives new perspective for understanding his behavior. Physical behaviors such as walking and throwing are results of biological evolution which has not kept pace with sociocultural evolution. Irrational decisions by man in social, cultural, and political fields are results of this brain activity. (PS)

Direct observations of animal behaviors can provide clues to understanding human behavior. By such observations of animals close to man, certain behavior patterns have been established. Man's behavior in social and cultural fields is an adaptation of these behavior patterns. (PS)