This paper presents the results of a medical-social questionnaire made by members of the Scientific Commission of the First International Congress of Drug Addiction Among University Students, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1974. (Author)

This study developed a Drug Involvement Classification for a general population. The classification took into consideration the following: type of drug used, legality, frequency and recency of drug use, number and combinations of drug used. The classification was developed from a New York State survey conducted in 1970. (Author)

Describes ways in which sociobiology can throw some light on the study of ethics, including recognition of the fact that human behavior, culture, and ethics do not exist in a biological vacuum. Topics discussed are sociobiology as ideology, culture and genes, and enlightened self interest. For journal availability, see SO 505 653. (Author/DB)

Seventy-six preschool children were given instructions designed to evoke a positive, negative, or neutral mood; they were subsequently given a choice between an immediately available but less perferred reward or a delayed, preferred reward. (BRT)

Unlike many other employment programs, TOPS offered substantial improvement over secondary labor market jobs, and changed radically in opportunity structure during the course of its operation. Trainee reactions to the extreme changes in program structure indicated that the behavioral patterns of disadvantaged minority employees are closely tied to…

A review of current treatment studies of pica or scavenging behavior in the mentally retarded is presented. (Author)

From questionnaires completed by parents and teachers and clinical assessment by a physician, 223 school age children were evaluated for childhood depression and its relationship to hyperactivity. (Author)

Analyzes the structure of relationships between streaking faddists on the campus and elsewhere in the country and the conditions, including the actions of the university officials, which gave rise to the fad on the campus and ultimately led to its termination. (Author/AM)

Data from a national survey of 375,000 persons show that, when only victims are considered, elderly victims are more likely than victims of other ages to suffer from predatory crimes and to be attacked by unarmed, young black male strangers. (Author)

Provided for regular and special class teachers is a list of questions for observing student behavior in eight areas: independent work, organization, written work, teacher-directed activities, oral language, cafeteria behavior, relationship with peers and motor ability. (CL)

Tests three previously untested hypotheses central to the theory of Brazelton and colleagues about the sequential structure of mother-infant face-to-face interaction. Results show that with some revision the hypotheses describe the structure of mother-infant face-to-face interaction from three to nine months of age. (Author/RH)

Temperament is examined from a longitudinal, within-individual perspective in order to investigate short-term change and patterns of temperament changes. For 100 consectutive days five mothers completed a temperament survey, reporting on their own and their two-year-old children's behavior. Patterns of change were identified for both mothers and…

Using "talk time" measures of spouse/stranger interaction styles, tested models of communication. Concluded that (1) a spillover interactionist model best represented the talk time data; (2) sex had no apparent effect on speaking with either a spouse or a stranger; and (3) few personality variables predicted talk time, though relationship…

Compared nocturnal sleep structure of 10 healthy elderly nuns to that of 10 healthy age-matched female controls. The nuns fell asleep more quickly and had less early morning awakening, as well as greater rapid eye movement sleep time. These differences may reflect the more highly entrained life style of the nuns, including modest habitual sleep…

Interviewed members of families of nine Alzheimer's disease victims which revealed, not as expected by the families, continuity of behavior patterns from before until after onset of dementia. Frequency and intensity of some past behaviors apparently increased while their expression became inappropriate. (Author/ABB)