This study examined the effects of instructions and modeling in the reflection-of-feeling training of individuals low in interpersonal-communication skills. Analysis of the reflection-of-feeling data indicated that instructions and instructions-plus-modeling were facilitative procedures. (Author)

Groups (N=16), composed of three males and three females, experienced one of four warm-up conditions prior to a 45-minute leaderless encounter group. Nonverbal exercises seemed to promote the largest increases in self-ratings of extraversion. The modeling condition was most effective in fostering a group atmosphere rated as "active."…

College students seated outdoors and alone on a university campus were approached by a same-sexed "invader" who sat nine inches or 18 inches away. The "invader" asked permission before sitting down or said nothing. Findings agree with equilibrium theory. Presented as the 1976 conference of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.…

At Western Illinois University a three segment workshop has been initiated to help participants become aware of intimacy skills and facilitate their actual practice. The model has three separate sections; each is devoted to a distinct but related series of concepts and activities. (Author)

Examination of student behavior in the college classroom led to the conclusion that the following organizational features promote a lack of student involvement in the classroom: (1) responsibility consolidation (a small percentage of students do the talking); (2) the tendency by instructors to avoid calling upon specific students; (3) infrequent…

Female (N = 4) interviewers, two black and two white, portrayed expert or referent role and attempted to influence 32 white subjects to use problemsolving processes and perform career-planning activities. Significant interactions of race and role were obtained such that black-expert and white-referent interviewers were most influential in attitude…

Examined type of situation and sex of the counselor in assertive training. Female subjects were given training in making complaints, small talk, and saying no to unreasonable requests. Significant improvement occurred. Subjects seen by a male counselor changed significantly more than subjects seen by a female counselor. (Author)

Investigates in a controlled setting effects of a suicide threat. Produced greater self-rated anxiety and tension, greater physiological arousal, and an increase in the likelihood that the subject would talk to the stimulus person about suicide, death, or dying. (Author)

Male and female subjects were exposed to stereotypic representations of either a traditional professional or humanistic model therapy office. Subjects consistently perceived a female therapist in the traditional-professional office as significantly more credible than a female therapist in the humanistic office. (Author)

Assessed the relationship of conversational involvement and loneliness among college students. Found that lonely participants in this study had lower rates of talkativeness, interruptions, and attention than the nonlonely; they were also perceived as less involved and less interpersonally attractive. (PD)

These two experiments focus on nonverbal behaviors that might have meaning in defining the relationship between partners and on the broader relational connotations produced by a reticent person's verbal and nonverbal communication style. (PD)

The effects of several factors on willingness to take a counterattitudinal position in a forthcoming debate were investigated. Subjects were presented with the dilemma of either compromising their own position and thereby not forfeiting a competitive advantage in the debate or forfeiting a competitive advantage by not compromising their own…

Experiment supporting the crux of Mead's discussion describing the development and projection of the social self. Use of pronominal references seems to be an indicator of the dimensions of the interaction process. (POP)

This study was concerned with investigating the effects of human relations laboratory experiences on the interpersonal behavior of male and female college students. (Author)