Defines dispersion as the degree to which the membership of an organization is spatially distributed and contends that employees' attitudes within an organization are affected by their employment level and the relative level of dispersion of their work location. (Available from the Journal of Applied Communications Research, Ed., Drawer NJ,…

Attempts to assess the effects of the mode and patterning of rehearsal on the acquisition and retention of modeled behaviors varying in organizational properties. (Author/RK)

Multidimensional scaling configurations were obtained for the same set of 11 stimuli using data from two different judgmental tasks completed by the same group of subjects. The procedure was felt to be a way of obtaining useful information regarding environmental perception. (RH)

Examined illness complaint rates in relation to degree of crowding in a federal prison and a county jail. The results suggest that crowding in prisons may induce psychological stress which can be reflected in an increased level of illness complaints. (BT)

Summarizes two studies that investigated the relationship between the effects of room environment (neat versus messy) and high and low sensation seeker's perception, evaluation, and performance. Elapsed time estimation did not vary as a function of room condition and personality. Sex differences were not found to be critical. (BT)

This review summarizes the present state of knowledge concerning littering behavior. Available studies are categorized according to the variables that influence littering--individual and environmental. Theoretical issues of attitude-behavior consistency and incentive effectiveness are analyzed with respect to littering and litter control. Results…

This study was designed to determine the effect of three types of residence hall administrative structures on students' perceptions of their environment, residence hall dropout rate, students' grade point averages, noise level, and residence hall damage at the University of Missouri - Columbia campus. (Author)

The present research is an attempt to test ideas in an analogy to a situation in which a person is labeled deviant for violating a social norm. (Author/RK)

The present experiment examined the choice behavior of humans during the learning of a reversal (R) shift as an empirical test of attentional explanations of the overtraining reversal effect. (Author/RK)

The main hypothesis tested was that relative isolation (desolation) as reflected in becoming widowed or divorced, rather than absolute isolation, which includes the widowed, divorced, and the single, is related to negative evaluations. (Author)

The results of a 17-30-year follow-up of 33 adolescent schizophrenics revealed that 61 percent had a chronic course while 39 percent had a more adequate adult adjustment, although frequently with neuroticlike deficits. (Author)

The purpose of the present study, is to determine to what extent Change Seeker Index scores correlate with the reported incidence of specific behaviors judged by the authors to rank high in stimulation-seeking characteristics. (Author)

Authors conclude that reinforcers provided by the behavioral approach provide immediate, short-range motivation for the child to acquire needed skills and information, while fostering the intrinsic desire to learn. (Author)