Discusses weaknesses in Weiss' arguments and techniques for the nonlinear predictor of academic achievement. (MB)

Criticisms included: confounding of behavioral treatments, unsystematic administration of primary and secondary reinforcers, lack of clarity concerning the therapist's role, absence of behaviorally based pretreatment and posttreatment measures, inadequate and unsupported definition of awareness, and the use of subjective and retrospective parental…

Through experimentation the author finds that there is a positive relationship between willingness to manipulate other people and success in a course where small group and dyadic communication activities compromise most of the performance experience. (Author/MS)

Humanistic behaviorism may provide the necessary bridge between behaviorism and humanism. Perhaps the most humanistic approach to teaching is to learn how certain changes will help students and how these changes can be accomplished. (Author/MLF)

Data collected from three separate surveys indicate that, in practice, there is no real difference between humanistic and behavioristic pyschology teachers. (Author/MLF)

Uses a dynamic modelling procedure to show that newspaper subscribing behavior is more complex than static perspectives have suggested. Argues that a dynamic model, tested with longitudinal data, improves understanding of the complexity of the stopping and restarting processes in newspaper subscribing. (RS)

Presents five laws of consciousness which essentially superimpose on the material laws of the human body, resulting in human behavior. Proposes that the behavior exhibited externally is equal to the product of a constant and the bio-energy, which corresponds to the ego-factor and the ability of the individual respectively. (Author/ABL)

Conceptual confusion might lie at heart of free will-determinism controversy. Reconceptualizing issue by positing independent bipolar dimensions (determinism versus nondeterminism and self-determination versus nonagentic mechanism) seems to create conceptual space for belief in both free will and determinism. Recent agentic theories of human…

The authors examine the repetition blindness effect--the failure to report one of the occurrences of a word presented twice in a rapid list. This phenomenon has been ascribed to inhibitory processes that prevent immediate tokenization of the 2nd occurrence of a repeated word. The authors present several kinds of evidence against that account,…

School choice is most often viewed through the lens of provision: most of the debate on the issue searches for desirable ways to offer vouchers, scholarships or other tools that provides choice as a way to achieve equality and/or freedom. This paper focuses on the consumer side of school choice, and utilises behavioural economics as well as…

Intention, self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, and subjective norms are key constructs of health behavior theories; their predictive validity for cancer screening has not been ascertained in multiethnic populations. Participants were 1,463 African American, Chinese, Filipina, Latina, and White women aged 40 to 74…

This paper theorises aspects of the distribution of newly qualified teachers in England, which is not arbitrary but patterned with differential effects upon socially distanced learners. As part of a larger project exploring the sociological strategies and stratification whereby teachers choose, and are chosen, for their first teaching post, I…