{"title":"Group modification of affective verbailzations: resistance to extinction and generalization effects.","authors":"D. Fromme, J. Stommel, R. Duvall","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00051.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00051.X","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"50 1","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":"83373936","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":"Evaluation of Choice-Dilemma Alternatives: Utility, Morality and Social Judgement","authors":"J. Eiser","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00006.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00006.X","url":null,"abstract":"One hundred non-psychology students completed a questionnaire in which they rated the desirability of the possible outcomes and the morality of the action alternatives for ten (mainly novel) choice-dilemmas. They also indicated their own recommendations and rated the cautious and risky alternatives on (a) C+ scales, defined by a positive term denoting caution and a negative term denoting risk (e.g. careful-foolhardy) and (b) R + scales, defined by a negative term denoting caution and a positive term denoting risk (e.g. cowardly-courageous). The pattern of each subject's recommendations across the ten dilemmas was more closely related to how the subject judged the morality of the action alternatives than to how he rated the desirability of the outcomes. For cautious dilemmas, the judged discrepancy between the cautious and risky alternatives was larger on C+ than R+ scales, but for risky dilemmas, it was larger on R + than C + scales, as predicted from findings in attitudinal judgement. No evidence was found for the notion that risk is generally evaluated more positively than caution. Implications for SEU and value theory interpretations of risk-taking are discussed.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"147 1","pages":"51-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78594807","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":"Attitudes and the Prediction of Social Conduct","authors":"A. Davey","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00002.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1976.TB00002.X","url":null,"abstract":"Both theories and definitions of attitudes have been strongly influenced by the belief that the ultimate validating referent of an attitude is behaviour. Nevertheless, the yield from some 50 or more years of research which has sought to establish that a knowledge of an individual's verbally expressed attitudes would enable one to predict his conduct has been meagre. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues involved in the prediction of action from psychological events, in particular those associated with the dispositional or latent process concept of attitudes. It is argued that the wrong sort of explanatory work has been demanded from the concept of attitude. In stable social settings, where some success has been achieved in establishing a degree of attitude-behaviour congruence, an equally accurate prediction could probably be made without reference to attitudes. In shifting social contexts, where repeatedly predictions from attitudes have failed to come off, an inquiry into attitudes is likely to be fruitful, not because there could be a simple deterministic relationship between attitudes and conduct, but because it could contribute to our understanding of the interaction between social change and individual choice.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"55 1","pages":"11-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90770784","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":"The Use and Recognition of Sequential Structure in Dialogue","authors":"D. Clarke","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00189.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00189.X","url":null,"abstract":"Two experiments are reported. In the first, four spontaneous dialogues were tape-recorded and a 20-line passage from each one transcribed. The 20 lines were then typed on separate file cards, and the set of 20 cards shuffled and given to 10 student subjects, with instructions to reconstitute the original order of each passage. This they were able to do with far greater than chance accuracy, suggesting that the original speakers were producing their conversation in accordance with certain sequencing procedures also known to other members of the speech community. In the second experiment the same task of sequence reconstitution was performed on four artificial dialogues whose individual utterances were produced in standard syntactic forms, so as to remove cues to the overall sequence carried by syntactic variations. In this way a second hypothesis was tested and confirmed: that the constraint upon the ongoing form of a verbal interaction operates over the domain of semantics as well as syntax.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"333-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91170799","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":"Consistency and Relativity in Selective Recall with Differing Ego‐Involvement","authors":"R. Spiro, C. Sherif","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00191.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00191.X","url":null,"abstract":"In appraising equal numbers of pro and con attitude-relevant statements, subjects created twice as many balanced as imbalanced structures, thus later also recalled more balanced information. However, relative to the available pools they created, they recalled proportionately more imbalanced than balanced information. Higher ego-involvement accentuated all of these processes. Instructional set and delay time did not alter the pattern, although immediate recall was superior. Recall results do not support simple selective hypotheses, favouring either agreed-with or attitude-favourable information. Selective recall for imbalanced information suggests revision of balance hypotheses tested previously by data reflecting larger pools of balanced structures created by subjects with ego-involving attitudes.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"351-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82483134","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":"Man or Machine as Diagnostic Tool: a Comparison between Clinical Psychologists and Discriminant Function Analysis","authors":"R. P. Power, H. J. Muntz, K. Macrae","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00197.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00197.X","url":null,"abstract":"Power et al. (1974) gave the Maudsley Personality Inventory plus a malingerer scale to three groups—neurotics, controls and students asked to malinger—and found, using discriminant function analysis, that 89 per cent were correctly classified on the basis of their test scores. When a second sample of the three types of subject was allocated using the weights established by the first analysis 78 per cent were correctly classified. Experienced clinical psychologists were given the norms established with the original three groups, and the scores of 20 of the individuals in the second set of groups, and were asked to state group membership of these individuals. The psychologists performed, on average, as well as did the discriminant analysis. This was better than expected, since several variables had to be considered at the one time. Some interesting discrepancies are discussed, as is the extent to which the results can be generalized.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"11 1","pages":"413-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78093542","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":"Altruism and Cognitive Development in Children","authors":"J. Rushton, J. Wiener","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00190.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00190.X","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the interrelationships between a number of age-related cognitive tasks and three different behavioural measures of altruism in 60 7- and 11-year-olds. The cognitive tasks included measures of role-taking ability, egocentricity, cognitive complexity, and conservation. It was intended to assess (a) the notion of generalized cognitive developmental levels, (b) the generality of altruistic behaviour, and (c) the degree to which cognitive-developmental level predicted altruistic behaviour. As expected, highly significant age differences were found on all cognitive tasks. Eleven-year-olds were also significantly more altruistic than were seven-year-olds. Although some generality emerged across altruistic behaviours, no such generalities emerged either between the cognitive measures themselves or between the cognitive measures and altruism. Some of the implications of the findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"185 1","pages":"341-349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86803623","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":"Immediate and Delayed Effects of TV Modelling and Preaching on Children's Generosity","authors":"J. Rushton, Diane Owen","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00183.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00183.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"309-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78966758","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":"Attitude Similarity and Interpersonal Attraction: Right Answers and Wrong Reasons","authors":"S. Duck","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00184.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00184.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"32 1","pages":"311-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81681980","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":"Decision‐making for Others under Reciprocal and Non‐reciprocal Conditions","authors":"A. Teger, N. Kogan","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00174.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00174.X","url":null,"abstract":"Subjects made decisions on a gambling task where the outcome would affect their own payoff or the pay-off of another person. For the latter, decisions were made reciprocally or non-reciprocally, and for a friend or a stranger. Decisions for others were significantly more cautious when the subject believed that the other person was making reciprocal choices which would affect the subject's pay-off than where no reciprocity was involved. Degree of friendship with the other person had no effect on the level of caution chosen for him. Subjects deciding for self more closely resembled subjects in the non-reciprocal than in the reciprocal condition in terms of chosen risk levels, but overall differences were relatively small. The enhanced caution in the reciprocal relative to non-reciprocal condition was attributed to a desire to ensure at least a modest pay-off for another who might benefit the self. It is conjectured that caution in such circumstances serves the function of guilt avoidance.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"215-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83718434","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}