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Peer reviewedFurman, Wyndol; Buhrmester, Duane – Child Development, 1985
Developed a framework for describing and assessing the qualities of sibling relationships by interviewing upper elementary school children and administering a self-report questionnaire to fifth- and sixth-grade children. Component analysis yielded four underlying factors: warmth/closeness, relative status/power, conflict, and rivalry. Relative…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Elementary Education, Human Relations
Gaylord, Vicki D.; Franklin, Thomas E. – Educational Technology, 1985
Discusses results of a study of computer programers which assessed the emotional and social needs met by their interaction with computers, programers, and nonprogrammers. Since a significant portion of respondents expressed preference for computer interaction, an examination of needs fulfilled by computer interaction is presented, and societal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Human Relations, Interaction
Hertzog, Robert L.; Bradac, James J. – 1983
To explore the impact of the environment on perceptions of compliance gaining situations, 97 university students were asked to recall and describe situations in which they had had to persuade someone to do something. Their descriptions of compliance gaining situations were then evaluated for similarity by three additional groups of students. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedCarley, Kathleen – Instructional Science, 1986
Relationship between the social world and individual knowledge acquisition is explored. A general theory predicated on the assumption that social interaction is the driving force behind knowledge acquisition is postulated and then formulated as a model. A selection of results pertaining to social learning are presented. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Download full textMarshall, Catherine – 1983
Female researchers conducting field research in educational politics encounter special problems of access, entry, reciprocity, and ethics. Accordingly, this study focuses first on field research methods in policy settings as a general topic, then on problems specific to women in this area. A researcher must be aware of informal coalitions or…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Females, Field Studies, Human Relations
Heinberg, Paul – 1983
The continuing inability of measures of personality to predict communicative or other types of behaviors has forced researchers to seek alternative ways of measuring. One alternative consists of a measure of four types of causal attribution in hypothetically crucial situations in five types of relationships of humans. The type of relationship in…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research
