Examines the influence of dogmatism on risk-taking behavior of groups and individuals and cites additional variables to be considered in a modification of the old risky shift paradigm. (MH)

Focuses on audience dependency on media as information resources and discusses alteration of audience beliefs, behavior, or feelings as a result of mass communicated information. (MH)

Among the phenomena covered are superstitious behavior, learned helplessness, experimental neurosis, anaclitic depression as a result of maternal separation, and physiological disturbances such as ulceration. (Author/AM)

It is suggested that the theory of behavior based on conditioning processes can be reconciled with new data, but only by revising certain tacit behaviorist assumptions about the parameters of the conditioning process. (Author/AM)

Discusses criticisms of behavioral science research methodologies, and offers solutions which emphasize that it is only on the basis of theory that one can decide on an appropriate hypothesis to be tested, on a correct method of statistical analysis, and on whether the experimental results can be generalized to a population of interest. (Author/KS)

Discusses analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), a standard tool for data analysis in psychological research. Considers the two major ways in which psychologists have used the technique: for increasing the precision of estimation in randomized experiments and for seeking to remove bias in nonrandomized studies, comparing ANCOVA with analytic…

Neutral individuals and apathetic individuals shifted attitudes significantly in this study. (Editor)

The theory of social comparison postulates that the tendency to compare one's performance to others' will decrease as a function of the discrepancy between the quality of one's own performance and that of the comparison person. (Author/MB)

Outlines a model of decision making known to researchers in the field of behavioral decision theory (BDT) as subjective expected utility (SEU). The descriptive and predictive validity of the SEU model, probability and values assessment using SEU, and decision contexts are examined, and a 54-item reference list is provided. (JL)

Reconsiders Mehrabian's formula for message impact using the all-channel condition as the criterion variable and the verbal, vocal, and facial channels as predictor variables. Regression equations for each of four messages were quite different from Mehrabian's formula and from each other, indicating a "contextual" rather than…

Reviews six current behavioral formulations of depression and proposes an integration of these theoretical positions into a single explanatory model. (Author/RK)

Notes how preceding articles expand the repertoire of theory-relevant assessments of attachment, with a special emphasis on Ainsworth's concept of the secure base. Focuses on a number of issues raised by this collection that are particularly promising for theory development, including assessment of secure-base behavior and maternal sensitivity,…