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Page 4C THE BATTALION MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1979 Type right. Happy faces Smile good for communication, study says Save $ 40 Reg. 239.95 Sale 199.95. Full-power cartridge electric typewriter has power return 12" carriage, 84 character keyboard, 3 repeat keys, one interchangeable key, power back space and pre-set tab system. Cartridge and carry case included. Pica type. Sale prices are effective through Saturday. Charge it! If not In stock, typewriters will be special ordered at sale prices. Figure right. Compare our everyday low price on the Texas Instruments MBA calculator. With a full range of business, financial and sta tistical functions including percentage, interest, deviation and much more. 49.95 regular low price Sale 16.95 Reg. 21.95. TI-30 calculator features 8 digit display, 2 digit exponent. Per forms math and science functions. Sale 34.95 Reg. 39.95. TI-55 Scientific calculator features 8 digit LED display, 2 digit exponent, scientific notation and 10 addressable memories. 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Young women also feel more re laxed communicating with a member of their own sex — possibly because they are not sure what a man’s smile means. Harold Hackney of Purdue Uni versity’s Department of Education reports those findings from his ex periments to determine a smile’s in fluence on verbal communication. “People want feedback when communicating a highly personal matter,” said Hackney, who helps train graduate students for counsel ing positions in community health centers and private industry. “Research in non-verbal behavior in an interpersonal setting has been sparse,” he said in an interview. “I Teel the whole realm of non-verbal communication and its importance in counseling is an area that has been largely neglected.” So Hackney designed three ex periments testing the effects a lis tener’s facial expressions have on a person asked to discuss his feelings | about a subject. He used college coeds as subjects. He hopes to com plete a series on men students later. The experiments aimed at measuring the influence of four non-verbal facial gestures — no ex pression, head nod, smile, and a combination of smile and head nod — on responses given by the sub jects. In the first experiment, videotapes were made of a male and a female counselor showing differ ent facial expressions. They were played for the subjects, who were told the counselors could see and hear them on closed circuit TV. “The first reaction of the students viewing the expressionless male was to talk like crazy for two and a half to three minutes, then give up after getting no feedback,” Hackney said. “With the stoic female, the sub jects didn’t work as hard to get the same reaction, but they tended to talk slower and longer so they talked pretty much the same amount.” Hackney said the interviews were tape recorded and subjects’ remarks analyzed to see how much they re flected the subject’s feelings. “We found that in the taped situa tion in which the counselors were randomly smiling or nodding, the subjects talked more and expressed more feeling to both the male and the female counselor. “However, they did express more self-reference statements, from which you could infer an element of trust, in talking to the female coun selor.” Hackney said the hesitance of the subjects — all women 19-21 years old — to “open up” to the male counselor might have occurred be cause they were not sure of what his smile meant. “Although the relative ages of the two makes a difference, when a man smiles at a woman it can mean so many things from T understand’ to T think you’re sexually interesting’ that young women aren’t as sure of themselves in talking to him as they are in talking to another woman. ” Hackney said the subjects indi cated they valued nods of the head more than a smile or any other facial gesture. The second experiment had a male or a female counselor in another room watch and listen on TV to the subjects, who in turn saw the counselors on the closed circuit television but were unable to hear them. The counselors gave appro priate facial responses to the stu dents’ comments. The results were similar to those of the first test, with the women students talking and responding more to the female counselor. “They were less apt to give more self expression to the male smiling or nodding than to the female coun selor giving them the same feed back,” he said. The third test involved face-to- face situations in which six male and female counselors listened and gave facial reactions without talking back to the subjects. “In the live situation, there was a lot of non-verbal behavior we couldn’t control,” Hackney said. “We found that all facial gestures were pretty powerful re-inforce was much harder for the coins to limit themselves to just specified set of gestures. “In addition, we found the jects were responding to thed ent counselors differently i though they were giving thei gestures. “But the importance of all j experiments is that they helpe isolate facial gestures we all tah granted as variables influem another’s behavior. “This will help us train mott fective counselors by giving tl* better understanding of what are saying when they are not si anything — the therapeutic asji of silence.” Americans worrying, needlessly: scientist United Press International LONDON — Dr. Magnus Pyke views the efforts of American re searchers to create a perfectly safe society with a measure of concern. In his opinion as one of the best known scientists in Britain, there can never be such a thing. “We live on Earth not in heaven,” he says, “and Earth is a dangerous place. The motor car is perfectly safe — if you put it down in con crete. The moment it moves there’s an element of risk.” Pyke is tall, skinny and angular with arms that flail as he talks. An interview, in fact, involves ducking a series of rights and lefts. In action he looks like he was thought up in a cartoon story conference at the Dis ney studios. But his head is grey with the wisdom of many years and his opinion is eagerly sought on television and as a lecturer and au thor. Americans, he said recently, seem to be suffering from a series of acute anxieties erupting in con sumer protests and environment demonstrations on subjects ranging from nuclear contamination to sac charin in soft drinks. He shares very few of these forebodings. Some of them, he said, are in fret provoked by the normal advance of science which can now refine its measurements to billionths and has discovered along the way that, for example, the delicious tuna contains some mercury as, indeed, it always has. “If you were an unemployed Scot tish laborer leaning against the post office in Aberdeen, you would be absorbing enough radiation from the granite of which it is built to give Ralph Nader a heart attack. “We now demand tests of food and drink so stringent that if Sir Walter Raleigh turned up today with the potato as a new and un known food, he would never stand a chance of having it accepted. Potatoes contain a poisonous sub stance, solanine. But the wide use of potatoes and the extreme rarity of harm from their consumption shows there is little cause for alarm from the knowledge they contain a toxic substance. “What is it,” mused the former secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, “that leads a community to regard the presence of some toxic chemi cals with tolerant indulgence while viewing with outraged horror very much smaller concentrations of others?” Pyke’s questions are rhetorical — he has his own answers always ready. Take fresh air, he said. Does the average man really know what there is in the “fresh air” for which he is fighting — now that we can measure infinitesimal fractions? Since science got to work on it we now know it to contain, along with nitrogen and oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide, a whole catalogue of other material — argon, neon, xenon, krypton and helium, organic chemicals from the waxes on the leaves of jungle trees in the Amazon basin, sulphur compounds from volcanoes, radioactive entities from granite rocks. He does not dismiss the American protests. What he urges is calmer consideration than the subject usu ally merits in the United States. “Clearly, prudent surveillance is desirable,” he said. “Attention de serves to be paid to the estimate that about two cases of cancer a year could be due to the (nuclear) pro cessing plant at Windscale (in ain). But while this is so, equ tention must be given to the that in burning coal we disbi about 100 tons of uranium an decay products a year into environment. ” He said present evidence in that deaths from cancer woul considerably reduced if the p stations burning coal and oil replaced by nuclear ones. But! said man long ago weighed i advantages and disadvantages found it useful. School offei unique libei arts educati United Press International AURORA, N.Y. — Teachioj blind to ski and arranging nuii exhibits are part of the inten program at Wells College, i men’s liberal arts institution ii state Aurora. Interns during the winter q\i represent about 25 percent of student body. 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