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Leary, Mark R.; Schlenker, Barry R. – 1979
Through self-presentations, individuals claim a variety of public images that influence how others regard and treat them in social interactions. An examination of self-presentation in a leadership situation focused on three dimensions of leader behavior: competence, socioemotionality, and prominence. Subjects (N=128) were assigned leadership…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Competence, Group Behavior
Gabrenya, William K., Jr.; And Others – 1982
Research conducted in the United States has found that people exert more effort when they perform a task individually than when they do so in a group. This phenomenon has been labeled social loafing. To examine the transcultural generality of social loafing, 20 male and 20 female Chinese school children in Taiwan were selected from grades 2, 3, 6,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Traits

Gurman, Ernest B.; Long, Keith – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1992
Two studies involving 135 female and 21 male undergraduates compare effects of masculinity and femininity on rater and ratee evaluations of emergent leader behavior in mixed-sex and same-sex groups. Masculinity is not associated with peer-rated leadership, but femininity is correlated with two measures (self-task and self-relationship) of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Evaluators, Females, Femininity
Eder, Donna – 1982
Peer influence on students has been of interest to sociologists for some time. But most studies of elementary classroom interaction have focused primarily on teacher-student interaction. A study of peer influence on other group members was designed to explain why students assigned to low ability groups became inattentive more frequently than…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques

Terry, Deborah J.; Hogg, Michael A. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Two studies provided support for the proposal that the role of norms in attitude-behavior relations can be useful reconceptualized for the perspective of social identity/self- categorization theory. Study one examined group norms as they influenced subjects to engage in regular exercise. Study two examined group norms as they influenced subjects…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Behavior
Wattenberg, William W. – 1967
This conference paper points out that there are different patterns of social deviancy among the various socioeconomic classes, and remedial treatment must take this class differential into account. For example, practitioners should be aware that there is a greater incidence of brain damage among children from impoverished families, and that…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Counseling, Delinquency
Morrison, Sherry B.; Oxford, Rebecca L. – 1978
This paper reports on an investigation of the interdependent relationship between ecological classroom dimensions and kindergarten students' task-related classroom behaviors, studied independently of personalities or age-group generalizations. Major purposes of the study were: (1) to identify and describe the main action structures observed in the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Class Size
Owens, William A. – 1970
A conceptual model of individual assessment through the use of biodata responses with minimal input information is outlined. The process is considered especially applicable to industrial psychology. A scored autobiographical data form, which measures the individual's past behavior and experiences, provides for assignment to a specific subgroup…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Biographical Inventories, Cluster Grouping
Cunningham, Jo Lynn; Boger, Robert P. – 1971
The feasiblity of an observational rating scale which would provide objective, reliable and quantifiable measures of social and affective behavior was investigated. The Observation of Socialization Behavior (OSB), focusing on peer-group behavior of pre-school children and designed for use in unstructured situations was developed. Two forms of the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Observation Techniques
Juvonen, Jaana, Ed.; Graham, Sandra, Ed. – 2001
Many children are targets of verbal and physical abuse or social ostracism at some point during their school careers, and a minority are repeatedly victimized by their peers. This volume brings together leading investigators to present the latest psychological research on chronically victimized children and adolescents. The book's introduction…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Leonard, Wilbert Marcellus, II – 1977
The document describes a field study to investigate the relationship between altruism and blood donating behavior among members of a large midwestern college community. Altruistic behavior is interpreted as combining three motivations: (1) reward-cost, also referred to in terms of behavior as social exchange; (2) social responsibility and…
Descriptors: Altruism, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students
Patchen, Martin; And Others – 1975
The relative importance of factors such as student characteristics, prior contact with the other race, opportunity for contact in the present situation, and conditions of inter-racial contact are examined in order to determine how they predict the social outcomes of inter-racial contact in high schools. Multiple regression analyses are performed…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Group Behavior
Handler, Benjamin – 1961
Building Research is urged to expand into areas concerned with human behavior, and a need for information on how people react physically and mentally, and how they perform their various tasks in environment created for them by the design professions, is cited. A research project at the University of Michigan is described, aimed at measuring the…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Anatomy, Behavior, Behavior Patterns
Martikainen, Marja – 1972
Videotaped group work lessons of an elementary school third grade class provide material for study of the non-verbal aspect of group behavior. A system of activity categories is developed and a typology of pupils' working methods in group study distinguishes types and characteristic forms of activity. The following activity categories are used in…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies
Grimshaw, Allen D. – 1972
This paper seeks to underline the importance of at least acknowledging the existence of a complex set of rules in a grammar of social interaction--and the further reality that while there may be a grammar of social interaction, there are also grammars of social interaction for different groups. It should be possible to find that apparently…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biculturalism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Background