Problems found by college presidents in the search and selection process are discussed, including skepticism about innovative practices, premature press disclosure, decision-making delays, lack of board-candidate communication, and shifts in selection criteria away from the candidate's record to interpersonal chemistry. (MSE)

Presents results of a survey of 100 social workers regarding their attitudes toward privacy. The five-item questionnaire (included) deals with personal privacy, values, disclosure, confidentiality, and legality. Results show social workers place a higher value on clients' privacy than on their own. (JAC)

Analyzes samples of American Indian oral narrative forms to demonstrate that patterning in the narrative structure (such as systematic recurrence of lines) may embody an explicit logic of experience and rhetoric of action. Suggests that patterning occurs in the language of any community, a fact that has implications for teaching language to…

Examines the legal issues concerning (1) cultural bias in educational tests; (2) the validity of employment tests; and (3) the disclosure of test materials. Discusses the legal interpretations of psychometric concepts that have arisen from recent litigation. (Author/GC)

Reinvestigated questions raised by Sidney Jourard's early research on self-disclosure. Specifically investigated the effects of gender, target, and topic on several dimensions of self-disclosure. Found little support for Jourard's conclusions. (PD)

Introduced a self-report instrument which asked persons: (1) how openness was manifested through style behaviors; (2) which topics would be easy to talk about openly; (3) which sets of people are easier to be open with. Concluded that the best indicator of openness is a person's style behaviors. (PD)

Varying amounts of information about the interview, interviewer and research can be provided to potential respondents during the interview introduction. Two studies in a large eastern center city may be interpreted as supporting greater disclosure to ensure informed consent by the respondent, thus improving the public image of survey research.…

Results indicate that subjects chose the moderate disclosing confederate significantly more often than the high or low discloser. Effects due to sex of the subject and the topics employed were negligible. Content of disclosures was varied and did not affect results. (PD)

Interviewers and respondents judged interview interactions during a survey of drug-related sentiments. Pronounced variability in interviewer-respondent judgements occurred in unanticipated ways related to gender, role, and ethnicity of participants. Positive interaction yielded different respondent cognitions and reports of illicit drug ingestion…

Arguments for enjoining enforcement of the New York state law to disclose results of standardized admissions tests to students address these issues: copyright, financial harm to test creators, constitutional protection, and the public interest. Recent court litigation, especially concerning the Medical College Admission Test, is reviewed. (MSE)

Compared the effects of traditional group norming techniques with a method where suggested norms are explicitly outlined at the beginning of the group. Data were analyzed to discover if there were significant differences between traditional norm groups and suggested norm groups in amount of interaction. (Author)

The potential for considerable marital dissatisfaction among wives is clearly present. Wives want less controlling behavior from their husbands than the husbands prefer to engage in. They want to move closer to their husbands and want their husbands to share more intimately with them. (Author)

A study of college students showed the subject's own level of disclosure had an impact on perceptions of males and females moderately high and moderately low in disclosure. Those more similar were viewed to be better adjusted and more likable. Subject's sex role orientation had no effect on perceptions. (Author)

Examined correlates of role (discloser vs facilitator) and personality characteristics of sensitivity to rejection and affiliative tendency in self-disclosing behaviors and partner evaluations following self-disclosure. Results indicated that facilitators were less open and more authoritative than disclosers. Persons scoring higher on sensitivity…

Indicates that a university community generally is quite approving of the campus daily newspaper as long as the editors avoid publishing too much "personal" news which tends to be unfavorable. Suggests that complaints about student newspapers might be the result of publishing factual types of stories rather than editorials. (RL)