Three approaches toward a differentiation between crowding and density are examined. Two states of crowding, cognitive and cognitive-affective-physiological, are distinguished. Seven propositions on which the proposed conceptual model is based are formulated. In the model, the factors affecting crowding and the modes of adaptation are discussed,…

Customers entering two grocery stores were given handbills listing specifically priced items of the week. This study investigated the relationship between the various disposal locations within the stores and the nature of the instructions printed at the bottom of the handbills. Results are detailed. (BT)

Thirty-five 6- to 10-year-old children with initial low rates of donating to help a peer either received a fine for each failure to donate or also were informed of the contingency between the fine and failure to donate. (JH)

An overview of a two-week practicum-laboratory training program is presented and discussed. The efficacy of the training is examined from the standpoint of helpful levels of empathy presented by the employment service counselors trained. (Author)

Presents a review of the literature relating to the cognitive developmental approach to morality and addresses itself to several questions raised by moral development research. (RP)

Analyzes data from over 8000 subjects on sibling affect as related to sex of subject and sibling, age of subject, older versus younger sibling, and family size. (Author)

Author was concerned in the greater part of this paper with investigation the prior question of possibility, only at the end drawing some practical conclusions on whether we should or should not be teaching anything that might be called an ethics of belief. (Author)

This research examines the relationship between a subdimension of alienation--anomie--and student unrest, and sets up a theoretical framework for predicting anomie. (Author)

An examination of the fear of success in black college women at four campuses indicates that the proportion of fear of success found in Thematic Apperception Test imagery of black women is consistently lower than has been found in studies of such imagery of white women. (Author)

This investigation examines the attitude-ambivalence measurement problem in the context of defining outcome criteria on which to measure the effects of aversive conditioning in alcoholism. (Author)

Investigates the role of instructions in operant conditioning research with children. Subjects are verbally instructed to make an unreinforced response while an incompatible response is monetarily rewarded. Examines the effects of experimenter presence and characteristics of the adult giving the instructions. (DP)

Interpersonal physical space was measured in two groups of male high school students, 30 deviants and 30 normals. Analysis of variance showed that (a) deviants demanded a greater proxemic area, (b) there was a significant increase in proxemic distance from front to rear with no difference between the groups, and (c) both groups demonstrated the…

Experiment revealed that the number of arguments had a more significant effect on individual shifts than did interpersonal comparison. (SP)

It has been a well-accepted axiom that the behavior of an individual is related closely to his perception. This research with children demonstrates the value of objective assessment of an individual's perception of social interactions in order to be able to predict more precisely some aspects of his interpersonal behavior. (Author)