Outlines a study designed to determine if adult interpretive comments significantly influence children's attitudes towards television entertainment programs and the amount of information learned. (MH)

Discusses a study designed to investigate people's conceptions of what believability should entail and how these conceptions differ over topic-situations. (MH)

Expands an earlier model of personal space expectations and their violations by specifying primitive terms, constitutive definitions, and the propositional logic underlying the model. (MH)

Three general strategies were used to generate six interventions to decrease lawn walking in a park. While none of the three strategies appeared generally superior, some interventions were more effective than others. Another intervention, designed independently by professional planners, was also evaluated and shown to increase lawn walking…

Deals with a field experiment conducted to explore the relationship between two determinants of helpfulness and predecisional communication behavior and discusses findings in terms of Schwartz's model of normative behavior. (MH)

Examines distance, axis, and tactility patterns of people engaged in dyadic communication in Germany, Italy, and the United States and concludes that contrary to Edward Hall's position, the cultures studied are too behaviorally diverse to be classified as strictly contact or noncontact cultures. (MH)

Posits the hypothesis that both black skin and nonstandard speech make employment as a salesperson or supervisor less likely and discusses the research study designed to provide support for this hypothesis. (MH)

Reports that left-handed subjects, particularly those with mixed hand preference, significantly out performed right-handed subjects in a pitch recognition task. (SL)

Two experiments explored the question of when people will respond to negative labels by confirming them and when they will respond by disconfirming them. (Editor)

Details a study designed to identify supervisor/superior behavior characteristics, including leadership styles which elicit the most accurate information from subordinates. (MH)

Provides empirical verification for Bormann's Dramatistic Communication Theory and suggests that the utility of Bormann's theory of rhetorical vision goes beyond its use as a descriptive schemata for critiquing rhetorical communication. (MH)

Four profoundly retarded multiply handicapped children (with a mean age of 12 years) were placed in a situation where auditory stimulation was made contingent on a visually directed lever-pulling response. (Author/MH)

Summarizes research on small group processes by giving a comprehensive account of the types of variables primarily studied in the laboratory. These include group structure, group composition, group size, and group relations. Considers effects of power, leadership, conformity to social norms, and role relationships. (Author/AV)

The authors present a fairly extensive collection of studies investigating rational-emotive therapy outcome in an effort to substantiate the effecteness of RET. (Author)

Black first-and second-grade students (N=40) were given instructions intended to induce possessiveness for both a designated toy and a play area. Each subject then surreptitiously observed an experimental confederate dressed in a clown costume play with either the designated toy or another toy. Results are discussed. (Author)