The relative importance of a number of predictors of binge drinking and of high-versus low-frequency binge drinking among undergraduate students was studied. Findings demonstrated that race, class,fraternity o r sorority membership, use of other drugs in the past 30 days, positive alcohol expectancies, perception of minimal risk, perception that friends do not disapprove of binge drinking, and perception of high normative drinking were factors in predicting episodes of binge drinking. Being male, having fraternity o r sorority membership, perceiving that friends do not disapprove, and using other drugs distinguished high-frequency from low-frequency binge drinkers.inge drinking is a concern on college campuses. Surveys of college students nationwide have found average binge drinking rates (gener-

Bowen's natural systems theory has been identified as a foundational theory in understanding family processes, and yet there is a lack of research examining the impact of counseling on Bowenian constructs of differentiation, emotional reactivity (ER), fusion, and "I" positions (IPs). In order to investigate this potential impact, the present study employed a pre-post quasi-experimental design, sampling 20 adults receiving outpatient counseling services for a 3-month period from a community mental health center in the Northeastern United States. The results revealed that participants demonstrated moderate to large statistically significant improvements in their overall differentiation of self, as well as in the dimensions of ER and taking IPs. However, there were no improvements in the dimensions of emotional cutoff and fusion with others. The results are discussed in relation to Bowenian theory as well as the common factors model.

Variations in attention during intentional or incidental learning were investigated. Materials for intentional learning were presented to 165 college students in conjunction with peripheral cues of humorous and non-humorous materials presented for incidental learning. An hypothesized funneling effect, an attentional shift during learning to the incidental materials, was not found for humorous or non-humorous materials and intentional recall of materials. Subjects with high self-reported sense of humor attended significantly more than subjects with a low sense of humor to incidental humorous materials. Further, subjects with high sense of humor showed significantly greater recall of incidental humorous materials than subjects with low sense of humor. A one-item self-report scale of sense of humor provided behavioral discrimination. The complexity of intentional and incidental learning and the effects of sense of humor on attention to intentional and incidental materials were discussed.

We investigated the effect of abortion on the sex role attitudes of 118 women undergoing the procedure. Perceived femininity, masculinity, and androgyny were measured during the week preceding the abortion, and then at 2 weeks and 3 months following the abortion. Because the decision to abort requires assertiveness not common to the traditional female role and a denial of maternity, we expected that postabortion femininity scores would decrease and masculinity scores would increase, resulting in greater androgyny. While no significant differences in femininity scores were found across the 3 testing times, masculinity and androgyny scores differed significantly from the first to third and second to third testing times.