Describes a study using the accentuation theory to predict differential effects of heckling on speaker credibility and attitude change, depending on whether the audience identifies with the heckler or the speaker. (JMF)

Hearing the rising unemployment figures reported in terms of some soulless number fails to convey the true costs to the individuals involved and to society-at-large. Unemployment affects the nation on at least three levels--psychologically, physiologically, and socially. (Author)

Reports on a study of students' information-seeking strategies, which revealed four distinct styles of information-seeking behavior. (GW)

Results of tests indicate that the microteaching experience brings about a positive change in the self-concept of education students. (JD)

Anomie results when goals and values have no meaning for students. The author outlines suggestions for the principal to combat this psychological pattern. (Author/DS)

Reports research results supporting the hypothesis that public speakers exhibit a psychological pattern of speech anxiety similar to the physiological pattern of speech anxiety. (MH)

To examine the hypothesis that certain types of irrational beliefs covary with the severity of depression, 156 undergraduates completed the Beck Depression Inventory and R. G. Jone's Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT). (Author)

Subjects were asked to allocate resources to one of several courses of action and their commitment was measured following a financial setback. Individuals may process information differently after a failure as opposed to a success and this differential processing may account for differences in commitment to policy decisions. (Author/IRT)

Death anxiety did not appear to be related to any of a number of demographic and personal variables which might have been expected to be correlates. It was, however, found to be associated with reports of personal reactions and preferences in a situation directly related to death--funerals. (Author)

The hypothetical constructs of attraction and barrier forces, as well as contrasting alternative attractions are used to organize the research literature on the determinants of marital stability and dissolution. (Author/AM)

Examines the effects of unhappy thoughts on mood and corrugator EMG (electromyographic activity) in depressed patients. Its purpose was to obtain evidence relevant to cognitive models of depression and to examine the usefulness of corrugator EMG as an indicator of depressed mood. (Author/RK)

Indicated that cognitive distortion was associated with high scores on the Minnesota Multiophasic Personality Inventory (MMPH) Depression (D), Psychasthenia (Pt), and Schizophrenia (Sc) scales, but not the Hypochondriasis (Hs) and Hysteria (Hy) scales. Cognitive distortion is likely to be an important factor in general distress but not in…

Proposes an approach that incorporates the traditional provision of concrete services and addresses the powerful emotional ties that keep many women from effecting a lasting separation from their abusive partners. Focuses on helping battered women identify and mourn the losses accompanying separation. (Author/ABB)