Investigated the effects of clients' age, physical attractiveness, and behavior on subjects' attraction to the clients. Results indicated that "counselor" subjects were significantly more attracted to child than to adult clients and to clients demonstrating good in-session behaviors. Physically attractive clients were not rated significantly more…

Satisfaction of participants in team sports hinges on psychosocial needs of individual athletes. Team affiliation creates a ready-made social structure in which emotional rewards of close friendships, motivation to achieve particular goals, and social reinforcement through personal recognition are granted. Other factors include: (1) team size; (2)…

Results of an experiment manipulating violations of distancing expectations and physical attractiveness indicate that both may be sources of distraction. Offers modest support for the prediction that attractive individuals engaging in violations of expectations will serve as positive sources of distraction, leading to greater susceptibility to…

Found that children aged 3, 4, and 5 who are more attractive to peers communicate in a more contentious, impression-leaving, dramatic, open, and animated style. Those children who are more attractive to teachers have a style that is more attentive, friendly, and relaxed. (PD)

Undergraduate females were or were not provoked by a confederate, and then required to discipline a girl who was pretty or was unattractive; or to discipline a boy who stuttered or one who spoke normally. The undesirable physical characteristics provoked stronger punishment, especially when subjects were angry. (Author/GDC)

A study of college students' dating behavior indicated that men expect more sexual intimacy sooner in a fewer number of dates than women. Most students are concerned about finding dating partners in a large university and feel positive about limited parental involvement. (Author/JAC)

The hypothesis that there would be less self-attribution of responsibility for the positive joint outcome in dyads of high attraction was confirmed in this study. (Author)

Although the roles of Archie Bunker and Ralph Cramden were quite similar, those of Edith Bunker and Alice Cramden in their reactions to similar strong personalities were quite different. Results suggest that one's role depends on individual personality structure and personality structures of group members. (Author)

Examined college students' perceptions of their ideal man and woman. Both male and female students, regardless of age or major saw the ideal man as having a "balanced" orientation and the ideal woman as having a self-orientation. College students' sex role perceptions appear to have changed. (Author)

Presents a study that explores (1) whether listeners regard speakers with similar global speech rates as more competent and attractive and (2) the influence of gender on their perceptions. Explains that the judges consisted of 17 male and 28 female listeners. (CMK)

Examined relations among several indicators of physical attractiveness (PA): height, weight, and triceps skinfold thickness. Appraised whether multiple PA indicators accounted for more variation in measures of psychosocial functioning than did single PA indexes. Facial attractiveness was the most frequent statistically significant predictor of…

Findings from 594 college students indicated that, although complementary standard may be used in hypothetical date selection, actual height of chosen person was more likely to be made on step function. Found no dating consequences for female in height-related sense; taller males enjoyed dating advantage, although advantage seemed to diminish when…

Multiple regression analyses of data obtained for 36 counseling supervision dyads indicated that attractiveness was negatively associated with supervisees' self-evaluations and positively associated with the difference between trainees' and supervisors' evaluations of counseling competence. Supervisors' interpersonal sensitivity and task…

The purpose of the present research brief is to report a novel characteristic of role model choice that may be unreported in the literature for black males and to assess this finding in relation to perceived attractiveness of self and a member of the opposite sex. The study found that the proportion of males choosing themselves as their own role…

The present experimental research examined whether framing early adolescents' (11- to 12-year-olds) learning activity in terms of the attainment of an extrinsic (i.e., physical attractiveness) versus intrinsic (i.e., health) goal and communicating these different goal contents in an internally controlling versus autonomy-supportive way affect…