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Pleasing the teacher: An exploration of the construct and its behavioral and motivational patterns.
(1997)
The current study examined motivational patterns related to high school students reasons for pleasing the teacher, and motivation in classes where they like and dislike the teacher. One hundred and twenty-five high school ...
The evaluation of a university-based acquaintance rape prevention program.
(1997)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of one such prevention program. One hundred and eighty male students from a large midwestern university were divided into two groups (dormitory & ROTC) and were ...
A cross-cultural study of noncompliant behaviors in Japanese and United States hospitals: Noncompliance as a response to perceived threats of shame, embarrassment, and management sanctions.
(1997)
In the research reported here, comparable measures are created of the perceived threats of shame, embarrassment, and management sanctions for three categories of occupational deviant conduct (taking a long lunch or break ...
Stereotyping in Black and White: Differences in stereotype knowledge and stereotype use.
(1997)
This study examined the content of stereotypes about Blacks and Whites, and the use of those stereotypes when confronted with ambiguous behaviors by a member of the stereotyped group. In study 1, both Black and White ...
Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol use: DF analysis of NLSY kinship data.
(1997)
DF analyses by race produced interesting findings. Each of the groups--Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics--differed from each other in some form. In each case, the c$\sp2$ and h$\sp2$ estimates were small to moderate for both ...
Impact of donor motivations and characteristics on giving to higher education.
(1997)
All factors were deemed to be significant at the.05 level using Chi-Square and Discriminant analysis. The most significant motivation factors were that the donor valued higher education, the donor was satisfied with their ...
The interaction of cognitive-behavioral therapy with integrated couple therapy for the treatment of depression in women.
(1997)
A 4 x 3 ANOVA indicated significant clinical improvement in depression and marital satisfaction due to time involved in therapy. The treatment conditions were not significantly different in their efficacy from one another. ...
Applying the ecological perspective to stereotypes: An investigation of older adult stereotypes as a function of interaction and context.
(1997)
Findings from this dissertation support all hypotheses. A significant difference was detected in younger adults' perceptions of attitudes associated with older adults. Older adults in an interactive context were rated more ...
Public and private self-consciousness and reality monitoring ability.
(1997)
How well one remembers information from the social environment will directly affect how well he or she can interact in that environment. Past research supports the notion that people with certain types of personality traits ...
Issues concerning deception and informed consent in psychology experiments.
(1997)
Experimental psychology often involves the intentional deception or manipulation of human subjects. Psychologists typically defend deceptive experiments by first presupposing either the innocuousness of the deception or ...