As predicted, approval dependent" persons were more likely to rationalize or excuse the failure" by blaming various experimental factors and/or their partners, but this was always done within the limits of a generalized tendency to seek social acceptance by expressing attitudes complimentary to other persons or situations. (Author)

The counselor has a responsibility to determine, through initial interviewing, whether a need exists for therapeutic intervention with an anxious or depressed client. (Author/CJ)

Counseling outcomes are more positive, among juvenile delinquents, when specific efforts are made to focus on the client's principal sources of concern. (CJ)

As a result of data from a questionnaire on sex behavior, administered to a second group of college students 10 years after the first, it was found that while attitudes toward premarital behavior had liberalized considerably, actual behavior had increased only somewhat or, in American males, not at all. Discrepancy between values and behavior has,…

Examines a study in which 15 freshmen and 15 seniors at Princeton University used 60 trait adjectives, 20 of which were student slang, to describe people they knew. Confirms that multidimensional scaling (MDS) reflects changes in semantic structure as a function of group membership. (MB)