The present results indicate that models can facilitate good interview behavior. The models significantly affected the duration and the degree of revealingness of interview responses. Across modeling conditions subjects talked longer to the female interviewer but were not more revealing than they were with the male interviewer. (Author)

Wolitzky's theoretical objections to the premises of a recent study by Levine are traced to some misunderstandings of the study's rationale, and to a difference in definition of the concept of constricted versus flexible control. (Author)

The results of this study provided additional support for the fruitfulness of conceptualizing four separate rational forms of novelty experiencing, as well as additional construct validation for each of the four measures. Overall the differentiation of the forms among themselves and with the external variables was reasonably good. (Author)

In a survey of 323 recent college graduates employed by the Army Materiel Command, some attitudes about current America arising from the study may lend a new perspective to the ideas about the highly charged campus atmosphere, its students, and how their beliefs are adjusted when they enter the work world. (Author)

The results presented support the hypotheses that the largest area of personal space would be used by individuals who are high in authoritarianism and low in self esteem, and that these individuals would also show the largest discrepancy between personal space used in response to white and black stimuli. (Author)

The results indicated that subjects with internal control orientations described their mothers as more nurturant, having more predictable standards for their children's behavior and using more achievement pressure. External control orientation subjects described mothers as more protective and more inclined to use deprivation of privileges. Other…

Notes that much human activity is monotonous, arduous, or degrading and that most low-caste groups eventually revolt. Suggests that humans use chimpanzees as a permanent minority group that will serve simultaneously as laborers and scapegoats. (MB)

A family doll placement technique was used to study separateness and connectedness within the family as this varies over positive and negative emotional themes. As hypothesized, positive emotional themes were represented by closer doll placements than negative themes. Emotions were also characterized by using certain kinds of groupings and…

Discussed in this article are generational differences in attitudes, effects of these differences on youth, questions on sex asked by youth, standards, implications of the revolution", and several illustrative case studies. (CJ)

Some study results are: (1) users are more alienated than nonusers; (2) alienation and drug use have increased over the Past decade; (3) users tend to be male upper classmen from higher socioeconomic and educational levels; and (4) the most alienated tend to be black female users from lower socioeconomic broken homes. (CJ)

Data from case records and questionnaires show that spouse support is positively associated with job success and is more predictive of that success among the more educated. (Author/CJ)

Nursery school children were asked to perform tasks by their own and other mothers. There was only slight consistency across mothers in the tendency of children to obey. However, obedience was strongly determined by the preexisting relationship between adult and child, 44 to 52 children were less obedient to their own mothers. (Author/WY)