Groups of students were required to respond to the same eight two-person games, two variants each of four qualitatively different separable games including Prisoner's Dilemma. The games were generated by varying a payoff parameter which altered the potential maximum per trial difference between payoffs for the two players. The groups differed…

Academic psychology and education are too much theoretically and methodologically committed; they need "field commitment"--an orientation which allows the people who are working with problem children or adults to use any technique, any tools at their disposal that will enable them to perform most proficiently in a given situation. Until people…

This document contains a literature review and discussion focusing on general tactical issues involved in research on modeling and verbal behavior. Five basic issues were identified: (1) It is necessary to distinguish between acquisition of new responses and performance of those already in the repertory. (2) The relationships between the modeled…

This study examines whether college supervisors who analyze their verbal behavior in supervisory conferences by means of the Blumberg system exhibit a change in proportions of direct and indirect verbal behavior when compared with college supervisors who do not use the Blumberg system to analyze their supervisory conferences. Sixteen volunteer…

The degree to which children aged 2 and under imitated a peer's novel uses of a material was examined. After being trained to emit "correct use responses" with the materials a child was placed in a peer group with instructions to show other children what he had learned. Results are discussed. (SE)

This four-year longitudinal study explored the utility of a unidimensional schema based upon the concept of an implicit value system (Protestant ethic-hedonistic continuum) and found that the conceptual simplicity and utility of the model warranted consideration of its use over the more complex multidimensional approaches. (MJB)

Explains factor analysis, discussing its relation to other multivariate techniques and describing characteristics of the data to consider in determining the appropriateness of factor analysis. Reviews considerations in making decisions about communality estimates, factor extraction, the number of factors to rotate, methods of factor rotation,…

Describes the use of multidimensional scaling (MDS), emphasizing applications in counseling and vocational psychology. Includes an example of one standard nonmetric scaling method. Addresses conceptual and practical considerations associated with the use of MDS. (Author/KS)

Argues for the application of behavioral methods including natural observations over reification in parapsychological research. Research methodology stressing the importance of observation, replication, and continuity in applied science is discussed. (Author/BL)

Analyzed choices made by researchers concerning factor model, retention criteria, rotation, interpretation of factors and other issues relevant to factor analysis. Results indicate that choices made by researchers have generally been poor and that reporting practices have not allowed for informed review, cumulation of results, or replicability.…

There is evidence that the conscious mind selects from among possible acts developed by the unconscious. Even lifting a finger may be subject to this shared mental management. Studies examining this point of view are summarized. (JN)

Used bibliographic citation analysis to compare and contrast three rehabilitation journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index from 1977 through 1980. Citation analysis showed the primary function of rehabilitation journals to be the translation of knowledge developed in other allied disciplines to rehabilitation concerns. (Author/LLL)

This paper discusses a number of statistical and interpretive problems that arise in the analysis of complex, multivariate data common in the study of man-environment relations. A multiple regression model of landscape preferences is analyzed in detail. (RH)

Provides critical discussion of the previous two articles by Brenda Dervin and John Bowes. (JY)

The relationship between willingness to delay reinforcement and two controllable factors, history of reinforcement and experimenter familiarity, was explored. Results showed that subjects' familiarity with the experimenter, not reinforcement history, was the key variable in determining willingness to delay reward. (Author/SB)