Replicates the McConkie and Rayner study (1974) in which the strategies of college students were manipulated through the use of payoff conditions. (RB)

Results of a survey show that all of the employers surveyed were apparently trained to use "tough talk" to control employees. In an experimental case described in the article, the application of behavioral technology to business problems resulted in tremendous payoffs, both to employer and employee. (Author/SC)

Study includes variety of subjectively positive as well as negative outcomes of becoming a parent for the first time. Using large urban sample, crisis was found to be slight or moderate. Several variables were found to be significantly related to the ease of dealing with first year of parenthood. (Author)

A discussion of all-male home economics classes at a high school in Fairfax, Virginia wherein male students apparently adopted serious attitudes towards cooking, entertaining, budgeting, selection of clothing and the like, when they were given functions of their own. (EK)

Results of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory data were correlated to see if they were related to demographic and behavioral data. Analysis was done for male and female subjects. A significant number of reliable correlates were identified. (Author/EK)

Using families with schizophrenic sons and control families with normal sons, intrafamily communication and schizophrenic thought disorder were evaluated for etiologic versus response basis. Results showed that communication of parents of schizophrenic children was not significantly more disordered than communication in the controlled group. (EK)

The subject of alcohol, to be taught effectively, should run through the entire curriculum as part of education for choosing lifelong values and attitudes. (Author/MLF)

Research is needed on the etiology, prevention and treatment of "blindisms" (stereotypic self-stimulatory behaviors characterized by withdrawal from the environment) which have been observed in some young blind children. (LH)

An analysis of educational research which indicates that behavior modification principles can be used to change or increase complex cognitive and interpersonal behaviors. (Author/HB)

Examines the relationship between resistence to interference and personality disturbance. Concludes that resistance to interference can be used as a diagnostic dimension in assessing the likelihood of personality disturbance. (HMV)

Summarizes study findings related to the effects of continuous monotonous stimulation on sleep and its physiological parameters in early infancy. (ED)

Two concepts of some importance to mental health are rationality and assertiveness. This study attempted to discover which of the two concepts is more central to good mental health. It was concluded that rationality is a more central concept to good mental health than assertiveness. (Author)

This study examined the differential patterns of pairing counsellors and clients on the personality variable Tolerance of Ambiguity and the effects on amount of counsellor talk during the interview , expressed client satisfaction, and the numbers of interviews attended by the client. (Author)

This study examined the relationship between the severity of negative consequences of a blameworthy behavior and attribution of responsibility for that behavior. (Author)