Investigates whether direct and nondirect therapist techniques within a 23-hour marathon format would differentially induce client shifts in locus of control. The no-treatment control group experienced a significant shift toward externality, while the marathon subjects did not fluctuate significantly from pretherapy to posttherapy. (Author)

A quantitative approach was used to identify factors relating to emotional adjustment in 84 dying patients. Emotional adjustment was influenced more by the patient's physical condition, by previous experiences with dying persons, and by interpersonal relationships. (Author)

The Faschingbauer Abbreviated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (FAM) was developed using cluster analysis and was compared to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and other short forms. On code-type correspondence, configural classifications, profile validities, and scale elevations, the FAM compared favorably to a…

Criticizes studies of egocentric development in children using cutaneous perception procedures. Also questions study contribution to the understanding of the development of decentering. (Author/SDH)

Degree of transfer and fear change associated with four levels of desensitization, pseudodesensitization, and no treatment were assessed in snakephobic students. Desensitization subjects reported significantly less anxiety than no-treatment controls when repeating their highest pretreatment responses, but were no different from either control…

Forty male and 40 female college students were rated on self-disclosure in interviews with either male or female interviewers of high or low status. Results were very mixed. The need for use of multiple measures in self-disclosure research and implications for client-therapist matching was noted. (Author)

This review presents findings of 31 treatment studies of college underachievers and bright failing underachievers, separately. The findings indicate that success rates were low and few clear relationships emerged between isolated variables and improvement in academic performance. Implications for future research and practical suggestions for the…

The validity and personality correlates of peer judgments of parole success were examined. Subjects judged as successes by their peers, in contrast to peer-judged failures, had significantly higher rates of parole success. Implications for application and research are noted. (Author)

Discusses the social and economic impact of the Green Revolution and the resulting problems such as benefiting rich farmers more than poor farmers, displacing labor and increasing rural unemployment. (BR)

The purpose of the study was to isolate groups homogeneous in role-taking ability and to describe them on dimensions of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Socialization (So) scale. The results support the validity of some of the subscales as indicators of the role-taking construct underlying the So scale. (Author)

The hypothesis that adolescent psychiatric patients would be deficient with respect to normal controls in their interpersonal problem-solving skills was tested by comparing the patient and control groups on seven tasks ref lecting different aspects of problem solving. (Author)

This study investigated some characteristics of persons experiencing "flashbacks," and provides systematic descriptions of the flashback phenomena. The drug user showed no significant differences in psychopathological characteristics as measured by the MMPI, nor significant differences in attentional processes as measured by the Embedded Figures…

Results from this study showed that external subjects provided with counseling and systematic desensitization felt that they retained too much control of therapy, while internals generally indicated an optional amount of control in counseling. (Author)

This study investigated the effectiveness of group counseling designed to increase the number of tentative career choices made by sixth-grade girls and to decrease the percentage of sex-typed choices. (Author)

Recruitment is discussed in relation to the fact that few individuals understand the behavioral aspects of the college recruitment interview. (Author)