Although originally developed in terms of interpersonal systems, the coorientational strategy model can be modified and used for research on the communication of collectivities. The proposed changes to the coorientational framework would permit examination of constructs of greater verisimilitude to theoretical reasoning of the behavior and…

Four hundred and seventy residents of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and 493 residents of Jyvaskyla, Finland, were randomly selected and interviewed about their attitudes concerning nuclear war. In each area, a high proportion of the sample believed that some kind of nuclear incident is likely in the next decade. The vast majority stated that a nuclear…

This study compared the findings of the 1969-76 Gallup polls on education with findings from three Canadian surveys on attitudes toward public schools. The Canadian studies were done in 1973, 1975, and 1976 in two large suburban school districts in Vancouver, British Columbia. In each of the Canadian surveys 200-250 adults were interviewed. Both…