{"title":"The role of postural change in dyadic conversations","authors":"P. Bull, R. Brown","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB01000.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB01000.X","url":null,"abstract":"Videotapes of six dyadic conversations were analysed to test some hypotheses derived from observations of Scheflen (1964) relating changes in posture to important features in the structure of conversation. Speech was scored for the extent to which it introduced new information into the conversation, and the more informative speech categories were found to be associated with more changes in posture. It is argued that this provides quantitative evidence in support of Scheflen's notion of a ‘programme’, where new stages of a social interaction are indicated by postural markers. Significant changes in trunk and leg postures were found only in the most informative speech category, providing some evidence to support Scheflen's notion of the ‘position’ where gross postural shifts involving at least half the body are reckoned to indicate a shift in the point of view that an interactant takes in a conversation.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"29-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87240570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's behaviour and the BSAG: Some theoretical and statistical considerations","authors":"M. Ghodsian","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00999.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00999.X","url":null,"abstract":"The 12 syndromes of the Bristol Social Adjustment Guide were factor analysed using data obtained on some 14000, 11 year olds. Separate analyses carried out for six social class and two sex categories revealed two very stable factors. These were discussed in relation to factors found in other similar analyses. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Certain theoretical and empirical limitations and problems were pointed to and it was suggested that within the context of these, the factors provide simple and parsimonious descriptions of classroom behaviour and might be of value in future research.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"23-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86579701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Similarity, interpersonal attitudes and attraction: The evaluative-descriptive distinction","authors":"G. Craig, S. Duck","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00998.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00998.X","url":null,"abstract":"Forty subjects chose trait words to describe six public figures and then received information regarding several strangers' judgements of the same public figures. The strangers' judgements had been ‘rigged’ to be similar or dissimilar in terms of the evaluative and descriptive aspects of the subjects' original judgements. Two hypotheses were tested: (a) that a subject's rating of the attractiveness of a stranger would be differentially influenced by the extent of similarity to his own judgement in both the evaluative and descriptive components of that judgement, and (b) that cognitively complex subjects would be less likely than cognitively simple subjects to rate strangers as unattractive when they manifest descriptive dissimilarity. Significant main effects were found for both evaluative similarity (P < 0·001) and descriptive similarity (P < 0·01), evaluative similarity having greater influence on attraction than descriptive similarity. Cognitive complexity interacted with descriptive similarity (P < 0·05) to the extent that complex subjects were more accepting of strangers who used different trait dimensions. The results are discussed in relation to consensual validation and the suggestion that validation of judgement about others' personality has a salient place in attraction.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"120 14 1","pages":"15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84065720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affiliative behaviours among soldiers during war‐time","authors":"M. Teichman","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00995.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00995.X","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the development of social interaction in a non-combat military unit, which was stationed in a war-zone during the October 1973 Middle East war. Like previous studies it points out that interpersonal relationships in military units stationed in war-zones are characterized by informal and intimate relations. However, this study brings into focus the stages preceding the formation of intimacy. Following Schachter's emotional comparison theory and Foa's theory of interpersonal resources it was hypothesized that (a) first patterns of affiliative behaviour to occur among soldiers would be the exchange of information, which would help them to clarify the threatening situation; and (b) as time elapses exchanges of particularistic resources would take place. As predicted, the first exchange pattern to occur was of non-particularistic resources - information. Exchanges of particularistic resources (friendship, affection, support) emerged only at a later stage. An approach which proposes a sequence of motivations underlying affiliation is presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"3-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82479924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extremity and ‘don't know’ sets in questionnaire response","authors":"J. Innes","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00996.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00996.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"53 1","pages":"9-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89193540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salience, importance and evaluation in judgements about people","authors":"P. Warr, P. Jackson","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB01001.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB01001.X","url":null,"abstract":"Three experiments are described which examine the mutual operation of different weighting criteria. The criteria are evaluative direction, and what are termed ‘general salience’ and ‘importance-in-context’. The first experiment establishes a paradigm case where general salience is varied but importance-in-context is controlled. Later experiments extend this paradigm case to stimulus compounds where both general salience and importance-in-context are controlled and to compounds where both are varied. Each experiment employs different stimulus material: trait adjectives, tape-recorded messages and newspaper articles. The three weighting criteria are shown to operate in an apparently non-additive way, in that the influence of one depends upon the state of the others. This is viewed as consistent with a sequential judgement process in which a perceiver searches for a significant starting point and then adjusts his provisional estimate in the light of the other information available to him.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"6 1","pages":"35-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90670246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial—Clinical Psychology","authors":"H. Beech","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00994.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1977.TB00994.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90881876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group modification of affective verbailzations: resistance to extinction and generalization effects.","authors":"D K Fromme, J A Stommel, R D Duvall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An operant group procedure significantly increased the frequency of here-and-now affect, feedback, and empathy statements made by two groups of four subjects during ten one-hour sessions, divided into base line, acquisition, extinction, reacquisition and generalization periods. The continously reinforced group showed resistance to extinction, attributed in part to reinforcement by other group members when a subject made reinforceable statements. Failure of the variably reinforced group to replicate this finding was attributed in part to a less adequate conceptual grasp of the reinforcement categories resulting from the reduced feedback associated with a variable ratio schedule. Both groups showed strong generalization effects when subjects were distributed among eight new groups and the new groups and the new subjects' performance was also significantly higher than typical base levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"15 4","pages":"365-402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12181552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Further Note on Sex Differences on the Semantic Differential","authors":"Denise C. R. Benel, R. A. Benel","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00057.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00057.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"74 1","pages":"437-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79234227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstructing Approximations to Dialogue","authors":"D. Shapiro","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00045.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00045.X","url":null,"abstract":"Fifteen undergraduate subjects attempted to reconstruct, following Clarke's (1975) procedure, four approximations to dialogue generated by Pease (1972a). Subjects displayed significant (P < 0.001) ability to locate utterances by the dialoguing participant immediately following the correct utterance by the monologuing participant, but not vice versa. Subjects did no better than chance in reconstructing the sequence of utterances by either participant alone. Methodological and theoretical implications are discussed, with reference to the predominant strategy apparently followed by subjects.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"6 1","pages":"353-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74453021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}