The concept of organizational climate came from a desire to understand person-environment interactions. Most research has focused on the development of measuring instruments and much less has focused on development of a theory base. The small amount of existing theory has been used as a beginning for measurement activities. The lack of theory may…

Positivist methodology, with an emphasis on quantification and measurement, is the most effective approach to behavioral research in geography and is the only means to obtain valid knowledge. Although initial behavioral research in geography was centered on positivist tradition, many of the classic tenets have been replaced. Tendencies toward…

Recent literature on television and behavior is reviewed, synthesized, and assessed in this report, the first of two volumes. Questions of television's impact on viewer functioning are addressed for the general reader, for the purpose of elucidating research findings and their implications for public health and future research. The focus of this…

Several issues related to peer review and improvement of applied social research are discussed. Peer review needs strengthening in at least two ways: (1) use of formal standards and reproducible measures, and (2) peer review of completed research. (RH)

Experimentally induced rehearsal and clustering strategies facilitated the performance of slow-learner, average, and gifted third graders on a visual short-term memory task. Self-pacing was superior to experimenter pacing of successive object presentation. (Author)

This study describes nonverbal behaviors on the part of subjects asked to give five minutes of instruction to a ten-year-old student, described as either bright or slow or not described at all in terms of IQ. (JH)

Based on a theory of self-awareness it was hypothesized that induced attention to the self would facilitate aggression if the salient standard of behavior was one in which high aggression was positively valued. (Editor)

Two experiments were performed to examine the influence of liking on causal attributions of another person's behavior. (Editor)

Two instruments concerned with the locus of control variable, Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control scale and Coan's Personal Opinion Survey are compared to see how each could predict political participation of a newly enfranchised college population in a presidential election year. Different theoretical approaches of the scales are…

Groups composed of members who were rated high in interpersonal skills are found to engage in significantly more personal discussion and feedback and less impersonal discussion than groups composed of members rated low in these skills. Groups receiving pretraining show similar differences when compared to no-pretraining controls. (Author)

Suicidality ratings for 90 patients in a voluntary psychiatric hospital ward are correlated with five possible indices of depression: self-ratings of depression, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Depression scale scores, depressive diagnosis, and alcohol and drug use. Both depression and suicidality emerges in the factor structure as…

A strict training procedure consisting of English words printed on magnetic particles placed on a magnetic board, was used to advance language in two language- deficient autistic children. The procedure is discussed in terms of its potential advantages for training language. (Author)

The present study seeks to determine the importance of one aspect of the therapeutic relationship, therapist warmth, on effecting positive behavior change using systematic desensitization. (Author)

Examines the relationship between the level of moral development, (as conceptualized by Piaget), and children's appreciation of humor. (DP)

Female subjects were asked to evaluate either an attractive or unattractive male stimulus person under one of the three experimental conditions; while listening to avant-garde, rock music, or no music at all. Responding on the Interpersonal Judgement Scale (IJS: Byrne, 1971) and a seven-point physical attractiveness scale, subjects indicated more…