Based upon reports of parents and guardians, with subjects at an average age of 21 years, it was found that 11 of the youngsters who had exhibited torque had in the interim been diagnosed as schizophrenic. (Author)

A 2-year follow-up questionnaire was sent to subjects originally tested by Rosen, Glasgow, and Barrera. Initial treatment gains for self- and therapist-directed desensitization subjects were maintained. Posttest behavior approach scores were not predictive of real-life behavioral change as reported at follow-up. (Author)

This study compares the relative predictive powers of job attachment and job satisfaction with respect to turnover among a sample of public employees and examines individual and job-related influences on both attitudes. Attachment was a more effective predictor of turnover than satisfaction. Implications are drawn for research in vocational…

Tested college students for conformity when conditions contributing to conformity were absent. Found that social pressures (responding in public, being surveyed by fellow group members) are necessary to produce conformity. (RL)

In a reexamination of patterns of cognitive abilities in mentally retarded and nonretarded children, 67 educable mentally retarded (EMR) children (mean age 12 years) were given a set of cognitive tasks shown in previous research to measure simultaneous and successive syntheses. (Author)

The findings of this survey contradict all current theories about the relationship between social class and criminality. (Author)

Discusses the significance of sociobiology in seeking biological explanations for animal and human social behavior through fresh application of Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection. A glossary of sociobiology terms is included. For journal availability, see SO 505 653. (Author/DB)

An examination of America's attempts to cope with the problem of heroin (and other drug) addiction must proceed through an analysis of the basic responses to the problem--penal, behavioral and medical--from two quite different, and frequently conflicting, vantage points: that of the individual addict and that of the society as a whole. (Author/NQ)

The current study was undertaken to review common streetlore of the drug-using counterculture of the 1970's, through applying sound pharmacologic and sociologic principle, to clarify and sort out misapprehension and contradiction from reality. Presented at the First International Symposium on the Pharmacology of Sexual Behaviour, Sardinia, June…