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Warrington, M.; Younger, M.; Williams, J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2000
Explores the different attitudes of English girls and boys to General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) work. Provides suggestions to account for the differences, particularly related to peer pressure, image, and social groupings. Finds that boys were ridiculed more for working hard and were under greater pressure to confirm to a cool,…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Group Behavior
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Salend, Spencer J.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1992
This study found that use of a dependent group evaluation system effectively decreased the group's inappropriate verbalizations and that the 9 students (ages 11-13) with disabilities had positive reactions to the system. The system involved delivering reinforcement based on an identified student's rating and congruence of the student's rating with…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities
Etheredge, Lloyd S. – 1976
This student manual is intended to help undergraduate political science students analyze human behavior. The manual poses the problem of why a group of high school students failed to take their cafeteria trays to the dirty dish room. It presents alternative solutions which students discuss as they explore various interpretations of human…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Theories, Group Behavior, Higher Education
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
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Newton, Fred B.; Newton, Doug – About Campus, 2001
When the authors wanted to combat the myth that excessive drinking and partying were common behaviors among students, they turned for help to a recent popular book on marketing and social behavior. The result was a trial project that identified and recruited the most influential students on campus, then set them loose to get the message out.…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Drinking, Group Behavior
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
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