Delegates to a community leadership laboratory found their skills in organizing, forming coalitions and perceiving power relationships'' tested when the staff became the unresponsive power group''. (Author/SP)

This transcript is taken from an interview at the University of Connecticut between the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, and two members of the Gay Liberation Movement at the university. The conversation focused on the presence of Gay Liberation on campus. (Author)

Conformity to peer expectations appears to be crucial in explaining premarital sexual activity and attitudes. Moreover, College students conform not only to their friends, but also to their age-mates in general. (Author)

Beginning with preschool years, children compare the rewards they receive with those received by other children. These comparisons have powerful effects upon subsequent self-rewarding behavior, evaluation of rewards and the sharing of rewards with others. A key process in these developments, social comparison," is reviewed in this article.…

Within a racially discriminatory context, data were presented to support the proposition that a significant factor in determining agreement between overt and verbal behavior is the degree of correspondence between the situation depicted in the question, to which the subject verbally responds, and the situation in which the subject performs the…

Multitreatment and multiple baseline designs were used to determine the relative influences of task demands, vibration, and a brief overcorrection procedure on two topographies of self-injurious behavior in one 16-year-old severely retarded male. (Author/SEW)

The social interaction training program paired three withdrawn mentally retarded children with three nonwithdrawn retarded children and provided instruction in three reciprocal responses designed to increase the target child's social responsiveness. Statistically significant differences of frequencies of social interaction were noted after…

Pairs of preschool children saw television commercials that varied in formal features (high versus low perceptual salience) and placement in a television show (dispersed through the program versus clustered at the beginning and end). Sixty-four subjects (32 female and 32 male) from a university preschool participated in the study. (Author/RH)

Children between the ages of 19 and 41 months were videotaped with a peer in a standardized playroom for four 15-minute sessions in order to examine a developmental model describing the relation between changes in pretense (pretend play, transformations, and communications) and changes in peer-oriented social behavior. (MP)

Tested the hypothesis that differences in cooperative-competitive social behavior between Anglo-Americans and Mexican Americans is a result of larger family size among the latter group. Found that, even after controlling for number of siblings and birth order, statistically significant differences in such behavior remained between the two groups.…

Power dependence theory and anticompetitive theory/sex strategy research were used to study a power v a socialization perspective. Results indicate that neither theory adequately explains perceptions or behavior in mixed sex groups. A sex stratification perspective can illuminate societal reasons for sex differences. (Author/GC)

Male graduate students exhibited significantly more aggressiveness (interruptive behavior) than female students in both male and female professors' classes, although more male aggressiveness occurred in female professors' classes. Male students were more verbally assertive in female professors' classes only. Among students, aggressiveness was…