Editor's Foreword
Conference Participants
Table of Contents
Session One. Public and Mass Media Uses of the Behavioral Sciences
1. The Potential Public Uses of the Behavior Sciences - Marvin Bressler
2. Newspaper Journalism and the Behavioral Sciences - Richard C. Wald
3. A Review of Session One - Ben H. Bagdikian, John W. Riley, Jr.
Session Two. Social Issues and the Mass Media
4. Implications for the Mass Media of Research on Intergroup Relations and Race - Robin M. Williams, Jr.
5. Social Class and Serious Mental Disorder - Melvin L. Kohn
6. Poverty and Public Policy - Alfred J. Kahn
7. Automation-Impact of Computers - Eli Ginzberg
8. Crime and Violence - Stanton Wheeler
Session Three. Journalists and Behavioral Scientists
9. Social Sciences in the Mass Media - Leo Bogart
10. Barriers to Communication: The Problem of Jargon - Ernest Havemann
11. Barriers to Communication: Another Journalist's View - Emmett Dedmon
12. Barriers to Communication: As Seen by a Social Psychologist - Ronald Lippitt
13. Barriers to Communication: As Seen by a Sociologist - Edgar F. Borgatta
14. Perceptions of a Mass Audience - John Mack Carter
15. A Review of Session Three - Joseph T. Klapper, Herbert H. Hyman
Session Four. Prospects: Training of Journalists in the Behavioral Sciences
16. The Russell Sage-Columbia Program in Journalism and the Behavioral Sciences - W. Phillips Davison
17. Techniques for Improving Access to Social Science Data and Resources - Wayne A. Danielson
18. Should There Be a Behavioral Science Beat? - Earl Ubell
19. A Review of Session Four - Robert L. Jones
Session Five. Summary and Conclusions
20. Summary and Conclusions - Daniel Lerner
Index