The influence of peer models on changing the impulsive response styles of fourth and sixth grades was experimentally investigated. (DP)

The purpose of this paper is to describe an intuitively appealing continuum along which motives relevant to situations of social interdependence may be located. Aditionally, it is argued that individuals differ in terms of their positions on this continuum, and that such differences are important to a general theory of bargaining. The argument is…

Reports an attempt to apply a method for assessing the structure of verbal interaction to nonverbal communication. Implications for further research are noted. (MH)

The basic hypothesis of this paper was that involvement or non-involvement in athletics, with the concomitant theoretical explanations, can be extended to identifying behavioral differences between athletes, based on their degree of team involvement. (Author/RK)

Discusses the deleterious effects of television on children's behavior, focusing on television as a medium of communication, and not on the quality of its programming. The criticisms include distortion and mediation of reality, interference with creative and social development, unidirectionality, violence, and inducement toward passivity. (ED)

Status transformations and cultural continuity are examined relative to the role of the Iroquois Indians who participated in the 1855 Franklin Search Expedition in the Arctic. (JC)

Exceptions to stereotypes of leisure behavior suggest that leisure may be chosen by the participant more than determined by social position. Unconditional, coordinated, and complementary types of leisure are distinguished by orientations toward intrinsic satisfaction or role expectations. (Author)

Article suggested that if teachers are adequate to the task, all manner of lessons can be drawn from pets. These run the gamut from math to language skills to social sciences to sex education. (Author/RK)

Undergraduates, divided into three groups--high verbal-low spatial (HiV-LoS), intermediate, and a high spatial-low verbal group (HiS-LoV)-- ties test. For males at least, the groups differed significantly on certaintook Cattell's 16PF questionnaire and Thurston's Primary Mental Abili personality variables involving response to social stimuli.…

Based on a paper presented at the Institute on "Advances in the Health Sciences Relating to Children and Youth, at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, November 23, 1968.

Portions of this paper were presented at the 1967 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New York.

A study was conducted to establish a baseline of facts concerning the extent, nature, and social functions of the drinking of alcoholic beverages as depicted on prime time network television programing. A content analysis was undertaken of a random sample of programs drawn from the three major networks over a period of 14 evenings. The primary…

The Behavior Observation Scale (BOS) was administered to 53 autistic children, 35 mentally retarded children matched for MA, and 33 normal children (all 2 to 5 years old) in an attempt to quantify autistic behavior. Ss were observed 3 days for 3 minutes through a one way mirror in a playroom setting where occurrence of 67 behaviors on the BOS was…

The use of self-monitoring and self-reported variability in cross-situational behavior to identify persons most likely to manifest covariation between their attitudes and behaviors was investigated. In the first session, subjects (N=102) completed Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale, assessed their religious attitudes and indicated the extent to which…