Results indicated that female monozygotic twins were more satisfied with their total self-concepts, including categories of identity, behavior, moral-ethical, personal, family, and number of deviant scores, when compared with male monozygotic twins. (Author)

The Group Test of Openness (GTO) was shown to have a moderate degree of stability. Predictive validity was demonstrated through a 14-week high school course in counseling skills in which scores on the GTO increased. GTO focused on behavior within a group and had an objective method of scoring. (Author)

Maslow's need hierarchy theory is restated by means of a matrix arrangement of the constructs within the theory. After consideration of the consequences of this restatement, some significant research is discussed and directions for future research suggested. (Author)

Examines the effects of interpersonal perspective upon certain noncontent communicative behaviors, specifically, unwillingness to communicate, predisposition toward verbal behavior, and disclosiveness. Significant differences are shown among persons with analytic, cooperational, and instrumental perspectives on a linear combination of…

The study examines the effect of a prior tornado disaster occurring in a community and that community's current response to a tornado threat. The study concludes that it is not past experience with tornadoes that relates to response to warnings, but rather awareness. Experience is but one source of information contributing to their awareness. (RE)

The question of changes in men's family roles is considered from the standpoint of approaches that feminists of both sexes might use to bring about those changes. Emergent consensus subsumes strategies labeled as prosocial and self-interest. The remaining approach subsumes negotiation strategies. Suggestions and practical applications follow.…

Reconsiders Mehrabian's formula for message impact using the all-channel condition as the criterion variable and the verbal, vocal, and facial channels as predictor variables. Regression equations for each of four messages were quite different from Mehrabian's formula and from each other, indicating a "contextual" rather than…

Discusses research supporting the conclusion that projective and quasi-projective measures of interpersonal distance do not measure the same phenomena as interactional measures. It is possible that they are more indicative of psychological rather than physical distance. (JMF)

Summarizes current research regarding the influence of cognition (things people think and feel) in the understanding of human social behavior. Discussed are experiments in attribution, social perception, self-concept, and attitude change which contribute to the author's point that the cognitive theme is becoming a unifying phenomenon in social…

Urges community psychologists to act as behavioral ecological matchmakers--a role entailing identifying individuals or groups desiring behavioral change and linking the target participants with networks of settings analyzed previously as facilitating the specified changes. (Author/DB)

Presents arguments for broadening the scope of clinical psychology to include religion more systematically in theories, research, and techniques, especially in relationship to personality and psychotherpay. Theistic belief systems must be seriously considered and conceptually integrated for counselors to be fully effective. (Author/BEF)

Data indicate that males are more willing than females to disclose to strangers and acquaintances, but females are more willing than males to disclose to intimates. Results suggest a tendency for men to avoid emotional intimacy with one another. (Author/BEF)

Vocal activity in spontaneous speech appears to alternate between regular periods of high and low activity. These cycles may be properties of social systems, internal cognitive rhythms, or physiological rhythms that affect readiness to initiate activity. (Author/RL)

An agenda-setting effect of the first Ford-Carter debate on college student viewers is demonstrated. Subjects who viewed the debate seem to have effected a synthesis between their personal priorities and the relative weight accorded issues in the debate. (JMF)

Supports the hypothesis that male leaders will receive higher ratings of alpha behavior than female leaders in mixed-sex groups, regardless of the females' ratings in same-sex groups. Points to linear male leadership patterns, while female patterns vary depending on the composition of the group. (RL)