Carkhuff's model of psychopathology suggesting a positive relationship between a person's human relations skills and indices of psychological adjustment was tested by using physically disabled college students as subjects and correlating a measure of their ability to communicate human relations skills with ratings of their acceptance of…

R.S. Lazarus's theory of coping was used to investigate appraisal and reappraisal of threat in repressors and sensitizers. Two indexes of stress, self-report ratings of affect and palmar skin conductance, were measured prior to performance on a reaction time task, after one-third of the task was completed and after two-thirds of the task was…

The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between attitudes toward visibly disabled persons and both trait and state anxiety. Results indicated that persons whose attitudes toward the cosmetically disabled were more negative showed more state anxiety in the interaction and more trait anxiety as measured by the MAS than students…

Study supports the hypothesis that boys and girls, at the time they enter school, do not show the sex-related patterns of fantasy that have been found to differentiate adult men and women. By the age of about 9, sexual differentiation in fantasy patterns is clearly evident. (Authors/CB)

The expectation that a member of a minority cultural or racial group exhibiting deviant behavior would be socially rejected was investigated. Results contrary to expectation are explained in terms of the greater rejection of someone similar (i.e., racial background) to oneself who behaves in a deviant or negatively valued manner. (Author)

Clients' ratings measuring the extent to which they felt inhibited by audio-recorded sessions (for supervisory purposes) were correlated with their scores on each scale of the Adjective Check List. Inhibition was positively related to scores in Self-Control, Endurance, Order, Abasement, Deference, and Counseling Readiness. (Author)

As an exploration of the frustration experienced by users of an on-line interactive retrieval system, students participated in an experiment using an experimental reference retrieval system for library literature. It was anticipated that significant variations in user behavior would be displayed by the control and experimental groups. (19…

Two experiments were designed to detect frustration phenomena hitherto only observed in subhuman animals, frustration being defined as the omission of the response item after a correct anticipation in a partial reinforcement schedule. (Authors)

The results support Gould's (1969) contention that alienation has important psychological, in addition to sociological, correlates. (Author)

Brings into focus the subject of the fear of death and its importance to adult education. Includes a research bibliography. (Author/DR)

This study compared two training methods for preparing counselors to discriminate verbal, facial, and voice cues that are associated with the emotion of depression. Results showed programmed text treatment to be more effective in teaching discrimination of depressive cues than the video presentation. (Author)

It was found that anxiety decreased significantly during the course of the institute. No significant relationship was found between anxiety and empathy changes. It appears that such changes in trainees may be related to length of training. (Author)