Brief report of pilot study, indicating that relationships between forms of expression and social adjustment depend on criteria for adjustment. Results suggest continued explanation of relationship with more systematic criteria variation, and with larger subject samples. (Author)

Knowing the origin or cause and behavioral consequence of brain damage may enable business educators to develop appropriate curriculums and to organize effective training programs. (CH)

Behavioral categories were related to counselors' scores on Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory, Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and Remote Associates Test. Counselors with more positive attitude and greater verbal fluency and flexibility were better able to talk during the interview, and counselors with more positive attitude used more…

To determine by classical time-estimation procedures if Type A persons estimate the passage of time differently than Type B persons, undergraduate male students, classified by the Jenkins Activity Survey, were asked to estimate several time periods. Responses to verbal, production, and reproduced time-estimation tasks were not significantly…

Effectiveness of reinforcing an alternative response combined with extinction was demonstrated in two mentally retarded children who exhibited high-rate hand stereoptics. (CL)

Presents a case study of the types of communication behavior exhibited by the members of a particular women's network. Reported that androgynous individuals were making more frequent contacts per week than any other psychological types. (PD)

Supports the hypothesis that temperamentally fussier 5- to 9-month-old infants are more fearful and less friendly toward strangers than are more easygoing infants of the same age. (MP)

Down's children remained in social and geographical isolation, whereas spontaneous play immediately followed the introduction of a normal child. There was little or no eye contact between the Down's children and their siblings and no mutual gaze between the normal siblings as they played. (SB)

Studied stereotypes of single adults in (N = 400) interviews. The divorced indicated more loneliness than the never married, currently married and remarried. A small category of divorced exhibited "swinging behavior" or having numerous sexual partners. Suggests behaviors are more complex than indicated by singles stereotypes. (Author/JAC)

Defines "mobilizing information" as information provided in a news story that helps readers turn their attitudinal reactions into behavior. Concludes that such information can increase reader involvement. (FL)

Assessed the relative predictive validity of obvious (O), neutral (N), and subtle (S) items of the MMPI MA scale for 86 males. Subtle-obvious ratings were compared to criteria in questionnaire, life-history, and objective tests. Correlations among the criteria were generally insignificant, suggesting that hypomania is not a homogeneous construct.…

Subjects (N=82) were given either veridical or false feedback concerning their level of intimacy one week after a short structured interaction with another. Results indicated that feedback had a greater effect on the reported degree of liking for the other and the disclosure level. (Author/RC)