This study used the Self-Consciousness Scale to test the hypothesis that socially anxious people could seek to avoid embarrassment and do poorly in small group discussions as a result. Those people high in private self-consciousness (lacking concern for social evaluation) would participate more in discussions. Findings supported the hypothesis.…

Describes a community litter control program. Special adhesive stickers were randomly placed on existing litter throughout a community and youth were rewarded with special prizes for participating in the program. Litter was reduced 32 percent across the city. (Author/MA)

Correlates Nixon's actions during his final days in office to the concepts of postself and partial death. Postself is the image one wants to remain after death. Partial death is a transitory state in which one faces a major alteration in his/her relationship to the world. (JMF)

Two experiments are described that examined the influence of time-of-day of presentation on immediate and delayed retention and its potential effects on retrieval from long-term memory. Time of presentation was found to influence both immediate and delayed (28 day) retention, but not retrieval from long-term memory. (Author/SJL)

Reviews and evaluates recent research examining the effects of control, perceived choice, and enhanced competence on the well-being of the institutionalized aged. (Author/GC)

There are meaningful personality differences between college women classified high v low on the Compulsive Eating Scale. High compulsive eaters are characterized by higher inner tension, greater suspiciousness and guilt-proneness, and less self-control and emotional stability; they also endorse "masculine" traits of dominance, independence, and…

Provides a brief synopsis of the utility of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) short forms with psychiatric, medical and normal samples. Strengths and limitations of each MMPI short form are discussed. (Author)

An actualized group of helping professionals and a nonactualized group of mental patients visualized their own aging process. The actualized group had more successful completion, indicating a fantasy of dying a natural death in old age. Ability to face death appears to be a concomitant of actualized authentic existence. (JAC)

Discusses the theory and research behind this approach, which deals with attitudinal qualities that are effective in releasing constructive and growthful changes in individual personality and behavior. Relates approach to the formative tendency of the universe, suggesting it as a possible means to transcend consciousness in new, spiritual…

The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition has found that, if cross-cultural psychology has mounted a challenge to developmental psychology, it is because it has forced recognition of the fact that no context of observation, including the laboratory, is culturally neutral. Settings for behavior are embedded in larger systems of social…

The following issues in the development of androgyny research are discussed: (1) methods for sex role inventory scoring; (2) adjustment differences between sex typed and androgynous individuals; (3) new methodologies and content areas for future research; and (4) historical and cultural implications of this research area. (Author/GC)

Reviews research on sign language as an instrument of communication and on the psychological validity of sign language. Examines the production of sign language as compared to oral language, perception in sign language, and studies on the role of memory in sign language. (AM)

This paper re-evaluates traditional approaches to the study of children's drawings in the light of current process-oriented research. A tentative synthesis of accounts of developmental stages in drawing is followed by an appraisal of drawings analysis in applied psychology. Main features of the new approach are outlined. (Author)

Theories of anticipatory belief change were examined as a function of whether subjects were reminded that their preexperimental attitudes were known, the source of the expected persuasive communication (expert vs peer), and whether instructions were given on the experimenter's concern with opinion change. All three variables interacted.…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether undergraduates classified as high or low in sexual permissiveness could be differentiated using variables reflecting socioeconomic status, religious background, sexual behavior, and sexual knowledge. The derived discriminant functions were found to correctly classify 97.1 percent of the subjects.…