Re-analyzes data on Rotter's Locus of Control Scale in terms of five categories reliably identified by judges: general luck or fate; respect; politics; academics and leadership; and, success. (JM)

Considers major studies on the cause of riots and on the rise of Negro militancy in the United States as forming the foundation of an empirically based explanation of riots. (JM)

Tests the hypothesis that an ingratiating subordinate will receive more rewards when the one in power is also faced with a hostile subordinate. Finds that an ingratiating subordinate receives more than his share of rewards regardless, and that all compliant subordinates receive even more when a hostile subordinate is present. (MB)

Research among male juvenile delinquents in a custodial training facility showed that: (1) the subjects exhibited attitudes that reflected their "prisonization" (assimilation into the inmates' nonformal normative system); (2) many of the juveniles felt alienated from the institutional environment; and (3) prisonization often led to reinvolvement…

Proposed a conceptual distinction between two types of experienced power and examined its relevance to participation in power-relaxed activities. After two college football games, spectators chose an image-of-power position after a hometeam defeat, and an actual-power position after a hometeam victory. Experiences of vicarious success or failure…

Measured the effectiveness of rational self-counseling in relation to college students' loci of control as an approach to the primary prevention of mental health problems. Administered pre- and posttest of Rotter's I-E scale to treatment and control groups. Findings suggest college students can learn to be more internally oriented. (Author/RC)

Researchers interviewed 83 subordinate employees and 70 supervisory employees to investigate the ways subordinates try to influence their supervisors. Supervisors and subordinates reported similar agents and methods of influence, causes of success, and outcomes of attempts at upward influence, but different causes of failure. (Author/RW)

Addresses issues which bear on the question of whether the membership or the leadership best decides appropriate goals for ALA activities. ALA's attempt to set organizational goals democratically is examined for differences and similarities between its leaders and members. (RAA)

The author discusses ways that individual faculty members may take action to directly affect the future of higher education through their own teaching, research, and discussions of education. (Author/SJL)

Assessed the effects of two types of communicative cues on perceptions of dominance. Subjects viewed stimulus tapes of controlled conversations and rated each speaker. Results indicated that vocal participation contributed to perceptions of dominance more than open-ended or closed-ended questions. (Author/RC)

The question of whether there is a specific ethnic response to poverty and economic dependence has relevance for social policy. Explores the response of Afro-Americans to economic dependence and discusses the implications for all Americans. (Author/RLV)