Describes the Motivational Style Questionnaire, an 80-item, three-factor (locus of control, social need, and achievement motivation) instrument, designed to measure student motivation objectively. (RAO)

This article discussess assertiveness in the Black-White encounter. The author delineates the assertive options available to Blacks, distortions in interpretation of assertive messages, and strategies for more effective and efficient assertions. (Author)

Questionnaires were administered to 100 males and 168 females, members and non-members of the gay community. Issues pertaining to differences between homosexually behaving males and females cannot be addressed apart from corresponding issues concerning the impact of the gay community as a facilitator of homoerotic sexual aspirations. (Author)

Questionnaires from 225 homosexual and 233 heterosexual adult women revealed 115 cases of rape or attempted rape. Data from 78 follow-up questionnaires are summarized. About the same proportion of lesbians and heterosexuals, age 16 or over, were the object of rape. Inferences are drawn about the rapists' attitudes toward women. (Author)

Tests the validity of three hypotheses previously offered to explain the attenuating effects of pacifistic noncooperation on instigative aggression. Results indicated that all hypotheses, norm-conformity, compliance, and maintenance of power, were viable for subgroups of subjects. Also discusses individual differences and the temporarily…

Discusses two techniques for use on the college level in teaching about the sociology of deviance. The first technique helps students understand the relativity of their personal beliefs. The second technique deals with strategies for investigating membership in deviant social groups. (Author/DB)

Dewey's philosophy of freedom is examined in order to provide a basis for a renewed faith in the educational process. (MJB)

This paper studies informal social participation of blacks and assesses what the patterns mean for the residents and the social organization of their communities. (Author/AM)

Examined was the relationship between duration of eye gaze and ranked position in a social group's dominance hierarchy in two groups of 12 institutionalized profoundly mentally retarded adults. (CL)

Discusses the relevance of applied performance testing to classroom testing and outlines strategies that teachers may take in incorporating this testing method into their classroom activities. (Author/RK)

Evidence from four studies demonstrates that social observers tend to perceive a "false consensus" with respect to the relative commonness of their own responses. Implications of these findings for our understanding of social perception phenomena and for the analysis of the divergent perceptions of actors and observers are discussed. (Editor/RK)

Adult follow-up information on social outcome variables was obtained for males who had taken the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) during their junior year. Individuals with undergraduate profiles indicative of psychopathology differed significantly in marital and educational status when compared to the no-high-point group 10…

Examines groups of individuals of differing income, education, occupation, age and sex and investigates the extent of differences between these groups on three levels: nationalism, support for the political system and satisfaction with aspects of every day living. Available from: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Transaction…

Presents data from a study of assimilative and accommodative discourse devices in the speech of 24 preschool children and 24 middle-childhood youngsters (12 boys and 12 girls in each group) in grades 3 and 6. Boys' discourse, regardless of age, contained more accommodative devices, whereas girls' discourse contained more assimilative devices. Some…

Analyses of the self-monitoring scale reveal an acting ability factor referring to performance in the sense of theatrical entertainment. Social acting items having face validity for ability to modify self-presentation in everyday life have very little in common with stage acting items of Snyder's Self-monitoring scale. Contingent and noncontingent…