The results show that parents and students did not always agree on college expectancy, but students have not been entirely accurate in their perceptions and have not always been able to fulfill their expectations. Parents may have more accurate long term expectations than do students. (Author/BY)

Results of a survey of about 300 students and 14 members in one department of a major university disclosed that advising was restricted to academic educational guidance. (Author)

The social psychological environment of hospitals or rehabilitation centers is described and suggestions are offered for research that would help to increase the understanding of the staff toward the patient. (Author)

Based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to Syracuse University. Reprints from: William L. Claiborn, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

Examined student self-perceptions and social comparisons during the first semester of university enrollment to determine variables related to formation of student performance expectancies. Results indicated expectations formed before the end of the first semester are related to actual performance at the end of the first year. (RC)

Measured the expectations, values, and motivations of depressed, hyperactive, and normal children (N=54). Results confirmed that depressed children exhibited reduced motivation, primarily because their expectations were pessimistic, although not abnormally irrational. Hyperactives exhibited optimistic expectations, inflated values, and, hence,…

Investigated how 240 students' expectations for counseling differed as a function of counselor gender specification and subject sex. Results indicated specification of the counselor's gender had no significant effect on students' expectations but sex of students did. Females expected stronger facilitative conditions and a more positive counseling…

Compared a hypnotic induction procedure based on social learning principles (skill induction) with a traditional eye-fixation/relaxation trance induction, a placebo, and a control. Results suggested that hypnotic responses are elicited by expectancy and that induction procedures are a means of increasing subjects' expectancies for hypnotic…

Assessed the theoretical and practical utility of adolescent alcohol expectancies against demographic/background variables in the prediction of adolescent drinking (N=1,580). Results showed that expectancies equalled and added to the predictive power of the background variables. Adolescents who drank in a social manner expected alcohol to enhance…