Therapeutic relationship as perceived by clients (N=54) and therapists (N=8) at a community mental health clinic was rated on five main factors: understanding, accepting, critical, independence-encouraging, and authoritarian (directive). Findings indicated that client perceptions of therapists as understanding and accepting were correlated most…

Explored elicited effects of changes in approval and disapproval behaviors on behaviors and perceived satisfaction of dating partners. Couples reported their perceptions of their behaviors. Disapproval elicited strong reciprocal behavior and dissatisfaction. Approval-eliciting effects occurred but were weaker. Male elicitors felt less satisfied…

Determined effects of client sex and counselor sex and sex role on the counseling relationship. Results indicate males were more satisfied with the counseling process than females. Males indicated greater satisfaction and a higher level of counselor regard with feminine counselors. Females indicated greater satisfaction with masculine counselors.…

The issue of teacher/coach role conflict is assessed in five areas: (1) conflict in values between coaches and society; (2) lower status of coaches in the educational profession; (3) conflict between personal advancement and commitment to athletes; (4) combined workload of the teacher/coach; and (5) differences between teaching and coaching…

Discusses the findings of 13 sequential studies done by Project Zero on children's sensitivity to artistic styles. Research indicated that there is a developmental sequence in artistic perception. Young children could learn to identify artistic styles but often had difficulty connecting the original paintings with small reproductions used in…

Examined the effect of interpersonal trust on perceptual vigilance in a tachistoscopic word-recognition study. Results indicated low trusters had lower recognition thresholds for connotatively negative words. They were more vigilant only for negative words. A manipulation intended to arouse subjects' suspicions about the experimenter was also…

Presents computational and psychophysical evidence in support of a theory of one of the earliest stages of visual processing in reading--the isolation of words in text. (HOD)

Recommends that because a person's beliefs radically restrict one's perception of events, students need to be taught to detect the beliefs of those involved in reporting current events. (AEA)

Preferential looking at stimuli varying in temporal frequency was examined in 11 prematurely born infants. The relationship between amount of looking and stimulus frequency yielded a significant linear trend with the fastest frequency used (4 hertz) being most preferred. (Author/DB)

Clarifies the extent to which an individual's fear of success scores may vary with the presence or absence of occupational deviance and/or role overload in stimulus materials describing situations of female competitive success. Results suggest that fear of success is a misnomer for responses to women's role descriptions. (Author/JLF)

Demonstrates that the proportional representation of minorities has declined, while that of women represented on television has increased over the past decade. Changes which have occurred relative to role significance are also discussed. Ten references are cited. (Author)

The awareness group experience (AGE) is a one-day structured workshop that helps participants to become more aware of their attitudes toward ethnic minorities and to change those attitudes that are negative. This article explains how to plan the AGE workshop, lists its goals, describes the sessions, and provides participant feedback. (Author)

The Fischer-Turner Attitudes toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help inventory was evaluated. Subjects reporting prior professional assistance for psychological problems espoused more favorable attitudes than individuals without such professional contact. Help-seeking attitudes were found to represent a significant positive influence on the…

Studied the phenomenal self-concept of males varying in self-esteem, using numerical self-reports. No significant differences were found on ratings of positive characteristics. Striking differences were noted for negative characteristics. Results suggest it is how individuals experience negative rather than positive characteristics that plays a…

Israeli participants (N=80), 16 to 78, were asked to divide course of life into periods, starting at age 11, and to mark range of each period. Younger people perceived lifespan as more differentiated (divided into more periods), whereas older people perceived it in a less differentiated way. (Author)