"Culture of poverty" theorists contend that the marginal socioeconomic position occupied by many minority groups is the result of a self-perpetuating poverty "way of life". This study brings empirical evidence to bear on this thesis as it applies to Navajo Indians in Denver, Colorado. (KM)

Subjects were 61 males and females who observed one of four combinations of male and female model performance on an anagram task: (1) male success-female success, (2) male success-female failure, (3) male failure-female success, and (4) male failure-female failure. Subjects' expectations of their own future success and amount of ability relating…

This study investigates the relationship between cooperation and empathy in young children proposed by Levine and Hoffman (1975). The study replicates the Levine and Hoffman study with the following modifications: (1) the naturalistic observation includes both males and females; (2) the sampling of cooperation is based upon the presence or absence…

This paper introduces the concept of psychological androgyny to sociologists, examines the ways in which androgyny has been measured and operationally defined by psychologists, and reviews available research concerning the antecedents and correlates of androgyny. The results of original research conducted with 622 students at the University of…

Argues that it seems difficult to defend the position that the only way to eliminate hostility that results from culture differences is to reduce or eliminate such differences; however, the prerequisities of meaningful ethnic identity are lacking -- i.e. a commitment to distinct, important values, and a readiness to use resources to preserve them.…

Describes a study developed to explore how the extraversion-introversion personality variable may act as a moderator variable in the dyadic self-disclosing situation. (Author/EJT)

If the major findings of a study by Dowling and Frantz should prove generalizable, several important questions are raised. These questions, and the potential dangers they suggest, are discussed in terms of counselor education, the power of school administrators and counselors, and counselor ethics and treatment techniques. (Author)

Six stages of development for black people struggling in the Western world are offered; not as tight psychological stages, but as philosophical points of departure based on the vision of the black artist. The applicability and potential therapeutic value of these stages in group counseling and other educational contexts is discussed. (EH)

Results indicate that reward and ignore conditions were not different but both yielded higher imitative scores than the punishment condition; same-sex models yielded higher imitation scores than opposite-sex models; lowest imitation scores were obtained by children exposed to a male experimenter and a female model. (Author/BJG)

Article presented at a Seminar on the Role of the Arts in Meeting the Disadvantaged (Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 18, 1960).

Based on a paper read to the 1967 meeting of the American Orthopsychiatry Association.

The paper describes developmental theories pertaining to adults and considers the implications of these theories for political scientists. Specifically, the works of four developmental theorists are examined: Erik Erikson's theory of the eight ages of man, Daniel J. Levinson's developmental stages which characterize the life of the early and…

Results of research to identify words which are perceived to characterize male and female traits are reported. Ninety-six undergraduate students, 48 male and 48 female, rated 210 adjectives on a five-point scale ranging from "very good example" to "very poor example." Researchers then categorized results according to core (best category…