Reports a study exploring the relative effects of three model variables (exhortations, practices and demands) and subjects' sex, on donation behaviors and evaluations of the model by 96 junior high school students. (BD/BR)

Investigation compared outcomes among a six-hour, one-session-only assertion training workshop model, a six-week one-hour session per week assertion training model, and a control group. (Author/PD)

This paper reports the initial development of the Behavioral Style Questionnaire (B.S.Q.) for determining temperamental characteristics in 3-to 7-year-old children. (CM)

Investigates the effects of communication apprehension on listeners by focusing on the extent to which the apprehension of the sender influences his/her communication effectiveness as perceived by the receiver. (MH)

Defines lexical diversity as manifest vocabulary range and lexical density as the ratio of lexical to gramatical items in a unit of discourse. Examines the effects of lexical diversity and density on listeners' evaluative judgments. (MH)

Examines various measures such as intensity, frequency and reciprocity of hits used in a game fight between spouses and attempts to relate such actions to the amount of discord reported in the represented marriages. (MH)

Reports a study designed to determine whether instruction via compressed speech produces anxiety in listeners and concludes that anxiety increases as presentation rate increases. (MH)

Attempts to assess the relationship between age and conformity and the possible effects of social class on this relationship. For availability see CS 704 480. (MH)

Details an investigation of student attitudes toward confidence testing in several undergraduate speech communication courses and concludes that students feel that this form of testing provides a better estimate of their knowledge than do conventional objective tests. (MH)

Attempts to determine whether a video-tape recording can prove to be an effective means of increasing information and improving attitudes about hospitalization. (MH)

Presents evidence in support of the theory that the information processing of opinion leaders is different from that of other people. (MH)

Violence among the Qualla Cherokees is due mainly to intensive in-group tensions generated by the restrictive reservation environment. Marginal enculturation, limited social mobility, complex subcultural interaction, and alcohol are all contributing factors. (Author/NQ)

This paper attempts to clarify some of the changes that have taken place in developmental psychology between 1962 and 1975. Journal references in all articles in six journals devoted primarily to research in developmental psychology were tabulated. Patterns of references to developmental and to nondevelopmental journals are analyzed and discussed.…