Effects of race, setting and type of approach upon interpersonal distance preferences among black and white female undergraduates are examined. Same-race pairs behavior, using direct and indirect measures, indicated interpersonal distance is likely to be greater in corner than in center settings. Race of subject has no significant effect but type…

In two studies, college students (N=34) in a classroom corridor who walked near the wall ("gravitators") were contrasted with those who walked near the center ("non-gravitators"). Gravitators were lower than non-gravitators on Autonomy and Defendence and appeared to be less responsive to other persons. (Author)

Kindergarten subjects (N=24) were given practice producing a geometric production when given the three dimensional object. Using a two-way analysis of variance, the main effect of motor activity (drawing the projections) was significant. It was concluded that children's learning activities should be motor based, rather than verbal. (Author)

To determine the point at which successive days of classroom observation results in a reliable sample of behavior, a classroom of 30 kindergarten children was observed over a period of 18 days in four behavior categories. High correlations between running and total averages were obtained around the fourth day. (Author)

Examines the relationship between teachers' race, students' sex, socioeconomic status, and classroom behavior. Results indicate race was a significant factor. (Author)

Discusses the contribution Dutch universities can make to development cooperation through collaboration in the fields of higher education and research with partners from Third World countries. (Author/RK)

This is another in a series of articles on institutes of international education in the Netherlands. The author, a Director of the Research Institute for Management Science in Delft discusses the work of his institute. Its stress is on industrial development in the Third World. (Editor/RK)

Crisis centers (N=2) had statistics of callers identified by race. Findings indicate differences between the white and black callers with regard to age, marital status, and type of problem. This kind of information suggests a need for expanded services within the crisis enter center framework, possibly for a more preventive approach. (Author)

Worker and caller behaviors are studied and compared in sample of 100 suicide calls to three crisis intervention centers. Verbal behaviors of workers and callers are substantially different, leading to the conclusion that crisis intervention is dissimilarly practiced between centers but similar within them. (Author)

Females (N=8) were tested in an experiment measuring maximal work capacity and energy expended under varying conditions in an eight hour day of strenuous work. Energy expended exceeded that required for most physically demanding occupations. (Author)

Examines whether the FIRO-BC scales of inclusion, control, and affection distinguish between students identified as stars and isolates through a sociometric instrument completed by their peers. Results indicate it did. (Author)

A 1970 national sample of white ever-married females is used to explore the process of the intergenerational transmission of marital instability. The research examines the possibility that mate-selection outcomes operate as intervening variables between parent and child generation marital instability. Partial support is found for this. (Author)

The work adjustment of 26 methadone-maintained corporate employees was evaluated. Results indicated: (a) relative to their nonmethadone-maintained coworkers, the methadone-maintained employees had comparable job performance and superior punctuality and attendance; and (b) the methadone-maintained skilled laborers were satisfied with their…

Photographs were taken of a male and a female in two eye positions: looking straight into the camera and looking downward. Job interviewers (N=44) in an employment agency were randomly assigned to one of the four photographs. Findings indicate eye contact is a determinant of the decision to hire. (Author)

Adult males (N=90) ages 25 to 58 were individually tested with three cognitive style measures. Error scores on the MFF (Matching Familiar Figures Test) are a better predictor of test performance than are latencies. Presented at the 84th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., 1976. (Author)