The relationship between willingness to delay reinforcement and two controllable factors, history of reinforcement and experimenter familiarity, was explored. Results showed that subjects' familiarity with the experimenter, not reinforcement history, was the key variable in determining willingness to delay reward. (Author/SB)

This author investigates the claim that A-B therapist type is associated with variation in the process and outcome of psychotherapy by testing the hypothesis that A's are superior with schizophrenics and both are comparably successful with neurotics. (RWP)

This paper is based on an address given at the Nineteenth Congress of the International Union of Scientific Psychology at Tokyo in August, 1972. Some steps toward a new paradigm are described in the form of seven koan. (Author/JB)

Investigation of ways in which man makes a psychological assessment of his environment. Concerned with variables in the environment itself, fifteen photographs of natural landscape scenes were rated on each of twenty-one semantic differential scales by college students. Two major dimensions emerged: natural scenic beauty and a natural force…

This study concerns the onset and early development of wariness in human infants. The data suggest positing a hierarchy of aversive reactions, from distress reactions to acquired fears. (Author/GB)

Using a three-variable design, this study investigated conformity to male and female group pressures among Chinese and American male college students. Americans showed a greater tendency toward anticonformity than did Chinese. (JB)

Report on the effects of an industrial training program in developing interactive skills, carried out by BOAC. (GB)

The results of these experiments strongly suggest that the occurrence of behavioral contagion depended on the relative advantage an initiator's action establishes over the other members of the group. (SD)