{"title":"Conformity in Children as a Function of Age Level","authors":"A. Sigston, David White","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00185.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00185.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"53 1","pages":"313-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77203986","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":"Social Progression and Polarization: a Study of Discussion and Negotiation in Groups of Mining Supervisors","authors":"G. Stephenson, C. Brotherton","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00176.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00176.X","url":null,"abstract":"Ninety-six mining supervisors completed a Role Perception Questionnaire. On the basis of their replies two-person and four-person groups were formed in which members of the group were cither Agreed (were on the same side) on three items for discussion, or Divided (half and half on opposite sides). Following discussion subjects individually recorded their opinions on the item in question. Social progression (movement in a given direction) and position extremity (movement to extreme positions) were examined within this 2 × 2 factorial design. Agreed groups became significantly more extreme than Divided groups at post-discussion, and four-person groups produced greater polarization than two-person groups. Divided subjects, on the other hand, progressed negatively (contrary to their initial polarization) and Agreed subjects progressed positively (in line with their initial polarization). This difference was significantly greater in the two-person than in the four-person condition. Greater attitude change overall occurred in the Divided than in the Agreed conditions. Explanations are proffered, and some implications discussed.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"09 1","pages":"241-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86172621","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":"Mental abilities: sibling constellation and social class correlates.","authors":"K. Marjoribanks, H. Walberg, M. Bargen","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00159.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00159.X","url":null,"abstract":"Verbal number reasoning and spatial ability scores were obtained for 185 11 year old boys. The relations between the mental abilities social status characteristics and sibling constellation variables were examined using a series of multiple regression equations. A 3 term equation including fathers occupation status inverse of the number of children in the family and the product of the 2 variables parsimoniously accounts for as much significant variance in the data as complex many-termed equations. Birth order crowding ratio their squares and products provide no better prediction beyond that afforded by the 3 term equation. The constellation variable inverse of sibsize is strongly associated with higher verbal and number ability scores of boys in families of low socioeconomic status but the effect is attenuated in families of higher socioeconomic status. The results suggest that birth order may be a superfluous sibling constellation variable in research but that the inclusion of the variable inverse of sibsize may lead to a greater understanding of the relationship between social status and mental ability performance. (authors modified)","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"109-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82931256","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":"Value Constructs: Relationships with Intelligence and Social Background","authors":"J. Glossop, C. Roberts, Dennis Shemilt","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00163.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00163.X","url":null,"abstract":"Using a version of Kelly's Role Construct Repertory Grid Test, experiments were conducted amongst samples of adolescents to investigate their modes of construing value concepts. Analysis concentrated on the definition of levels of abstraction and insight associated with individual perceptions of such concepts, a hierarchical structure involving three levels of abstraction being indicated. Results suggested that measured intelligence and social background were significantly correlated with the use of higher levels of abstraction, these correlations remaining significant when the correlation between measured intelligence and social background had been taken into account. No significant relationship was found between the sex of subjects and the levels of abstraction.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"147-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74048777","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":"Changing Children's Beliefs about Punishment","authors":"L. Jensen, Ann M. Rytting","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00153.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00153.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"51 1","pages":"91-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85786521","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 New Theory of Fashion Change: a Test of Some Predictions","authors":"K. Gibbins, Tony Gwynn","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00142.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1975.TB00142.X","url":null,"abstract":"Various theories of why fashion occurs are critically discussed. An alternative theory is presented which suggests that clothes are used as media of communication whose message describes the wearer. The assumption is made that the clothes actually worn are a compromise between what the wearer sees herself to be and what she would like to be, but closer to the former. To explain the spread of fashion, it is hypothesized that fashionable outfits bear a fairly consistent message which is different from that carried by unfashionable clothes. This is borne out by the results of an investigation in which female psychology students judged the wearer of 10 unfashionable and 10 fashionable outfits. The theory predicts that for potential adopters of a fashion, i.e. a group of girls unselected for fashionability, the ideal self image (ISI) will be nearer the impression conveyed by fashionable clothes than will the self image and that women who are regarded as fashionable differ in their perceptions of themselves from unfashionable women. Investigations were carried out, the results of which are consistent with these hypotheses. If these results are generally repeatable it follows from this theory that fashion change can occur either because, with the general adoption of a style its message changes, or because the average aspirations of women (ISI) change. The latter suggestion implies that fashions do as, for example, Laver (1945) has suggested, reflect the ‘Spirit of the Age’ in quite a straightforward sense.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80707610","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}
J. A. Wakefield, B. Yom, P. Bradley, E. Doughtie, J. A. Cox, I. A. Kraft
{"title":"Eysenck's Personality Dimensions: a Model for the MMPI","authors":"J. A. Wakefield, B. Yom, P. Bradley, E. Doughtie, J. A. Cox, I. A. Kraft","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00137.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00137.X","url":null,"abstract":"Nine of the ten clinical scales of the MMPI were considered as measures of the neuroticism, psychoticism and extraversion personality dimensions of Eysenck. The correspondence between the conceptual placement of the subtests in Eysenck's three-dimensional space and their empirical placement in factor space was tested for 205 married males and again for 205 married females. The correspondence was significant for both sexes but considerably stronger for the females than for the males.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"77 1","pages":"413-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84944984","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":"Cluster Analysis versus Principal Component Analysis: a Reply to E. E. Rump","authors":"P. Slater","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00140.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00140.X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"427-430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89291580","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":"Age, Group Decisions on Risk-related Topics and the Prediction of Choice Shifts","authors":"C. Spencer, M. Williams, H. Oldfield-Box","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00132.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00132.X","url":null,"abstract":"Assertions in the literature that the elderly are less willing to make decisions involving risk than are the young were tested by comparing the decision-making of two samples: one of 36 undergraduates and one of 26 subjects aged 55–65. Neither on their initial decisions nor in their group discussions of choice dilemma items did the older differ from the younger sample. The predictive validity of Stoner's Value Ranking Instrument was tested with both samples; and in neither was the instrument successful in indicating which items subsequently produced cautious shifts and which shifts to greater risk following group discussion. One reason for the inadequacy of Stoner's method of examining particular cultures' value for risk may lie in the abstractness of the instrument he has developed.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"5 1","pages":"375-381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78439011","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":"Justice and Generosity in Social Exchange: an Experimental Study of Reactions to Winning or Losing a Game","authors":"J. H. White","doi":"10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00131.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.2044-8260.1974.TB00131.X","url":null,"abstract":"It was predicted from exchange theory that distributive justice would be fulfilled in a game when a player with high investments defeated an opponent with low investments. Were the reverse to occur, the ‘low’ winner should feel embarrassment and the ‘high’ loser anger. This hypothesis was tested experimentally. Unacquainted boys whose leadership status was high or low raced model cars, winning or losing being predetermined. After racing, the boys were separately asked to divide a sum of money between them, which provided a measure of their anger or embarrassment over the outcome. The boys behaved in accordance with predictions in that high status boys who had lost to low status were less generous than low status who had lost to high status. Parallel results were obtained amongst the winners.","PeriodicalId":76614,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of social and clinical psychology","volume":"30 1","pages":"369-373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84617169","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}