A case study analyzing job enrichment schemes and manager expectations of increased productivity is presented. It was found that it was the managers' expectations of increased productivity, not the reorganization of work, that led to higher productivity. (EC)

For the evaluator, future expectations will be more demanding than at present. Operating staff, managers, and funders will be familiar with the program evaluation. Improved information tools will help by keeping the organization visible and manageable. A more fundamental change will be an improved "language of accountability." (Author/CTM)

Undergraduates could earn a $10 bonus by performing above average on a free-recall task. Following a pretest, success messages were manipulated. During a subsequent test, subjects could cheat. Cheating was related to anticipated success in a curvilinear fashion with medium success yielding the most cheating. Cheating and expectations are…

Males and females in grades 2 through 8 and in age levels 15-18, 25-35, 40-50, and 55-65 were interviewed and asked for the number of friends they have, their friends' names, and what they liked about having a friend. Results are discussed in terms of changing peer expectations and influences during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.…

A sample of 161 undergraduate students completed a questionnaire measuring their preferences for expertise, genuineness, trust, acceptance, understanding, outcome, and directiveness. These data were compared with data previously obtained about students' expectations of counseling, and the relationship among sex, college class, and preferences for…

This study is concerned with how different modes of attention influence anticipatory reactivity and, in addition to investigating initial reactivity, examines the influence of attention upon habituation. (Author/RK)

Described is the SICCS model (Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System) for systematically analyzing behaviors associated with creativity. (DB)

Two independent studies were conducted to examine the expectancy behavior of unselected hypnotic, task-motivated, and control-imagination subjects on a slide task requiring response to ambiguous visual information. Results showed that hypnotic subjects consistently demonstrated expectancy behavior, whereas nonhypnotic subjects did not. (Editor/RK)

The existence of two different approaches to the theoretical understanding of social behavior is noted. Presents a systems model as offered by Talavage and compares it with Rotter's social learning theory. (Editor/RK)

The essays of 480 children from 6 to 14 years of age were content analyzed along 21 dimensions of friendship expectation. Results supported an invariant-sequence interpretation for the 11 dimensions which increased significantly with age. (Author/JMB)

The principal should recommend that the teacher regularly and consciously apply the self-fulfilling prophecy--the idea that one person's expectation for another's behavior can come to serve as a mechanism to help that expectation be fulfilled. (Author/IRT)

Commends cognitive studies for extending our understanding of alcohol use and abuse. The role of vicarious learning and efficacy and outcome expectations in the development, maintenance, and prevention of drinking, is stressed. Reinterpreted concepts of craving and loss of control as well as models of relapse and prevention treatment strategies,…

Examined relationship between decision-making style and counseling expectations in volunteers with rational (N=208), intuitive (N=26), or dependent (N=13) decision-making styles. Results revealed that dependents scored significantly higher than rationals on Acceptance and Nurturance; intuitives scored significantly higher than others on…

The introduction to four papers on generalization in language intervention stresses the importance of generalization, the need to have reasonable expectations for generalization following intervention, and ways that learned insights about language form, content, and use can encourage generalization of new skills. (DB)

Conducted first two phases of longitudinal methodology for collecting student affairs graduates' placement data by comparing graduates' anticipated and actual placements. Results revealed that graduates found themselves in different types of institutions than they had anticipated, fewer followed through to further graduate studies, and many found…