Explores the importance of relationship literacy--the ability to create good relationships with others--in the next economy and offers perspectives on how business education instructors can help students develop and improve their human relations skills for business success. (Author/JOW)

This project did the planning and pilot phases of an effort to improve the teaching of human relations in grades K-12 of public and private schools in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. In the pilot phase, the project furnished on-the-job training for approximately 70 schools. The training was given by teams of human relations…

Ways in which an emotionally mature and perceptive person can help another with deep-rooted and seemingly unsolvable personal problems are presented. (CK)

The interpersonal behaviors of depressed and control Ss were compared. The results were generally consistent in showing depressed Ss to be lower than controls on a number of operational measures of social skill (i.e., activity level, interpersonal range, rate of positive reactions emitted, and action latency). (Author)

Highlights aspects of the social climate conducive to the decision process and some sustained frameworks for cooperative decisions. (IRT)

College students underwent group training on human relations skills and were rated by their trainers. Results indicated that: (1) females received slightly higher ratings on all skills examined; and (2) male students received higher ratings from male trainers than from female trainers, but a comparable same-sex effect was not demonstrated for…

These two manuals, student's and teacher's, present information to stimulate both dialogue and problem-solving activity on drugs and drug education within the classroom. With a focus on human interaction, the five units include an introduction, a section about people, one about drugs, a section on effects and consequences of drug abuse, and a…

Describes a workshop in intimacy for (N=10) men. Analyzed intimacy between men based on the verbal expressions of those who attended the workshop. Suggests counselors need to understand male reluctancy towards intimacy with each other to better help them overcome it. (RC)

After a description of the kinds of group experience which lead to greater personal awareness, the author concludes that through the humanistic approach to teaching in sex and sexuality, students are more able to relate their subjective responses regarding how they feel about themselves as sexual persons. (Author/BY)

Toman's theory of the relation of birth-order compatibility and interpersonal relations was extended to dyads (pairs) with members of the same sex. It was predicted that interpersonal compatibility between members of same-sex dyads (50 female, 27 male pairs of Vassar College roommates) would be positively correlated with birth-order compatibility…

The nature of interpersonal skills and the current status of visual aids for teaching human relations is reviewed, and ways that videotape productions with characters, story line, and action sequences can enhance learning are discussed. The experience of producing a series of videotapes about prehospital emergency care is described. (Author/MLW)

The purpose of the investigation was to observe the relationship between the personality of high school counselors and their interpersonal characteristics. Forty high school counselors responded to the 16PF and 160 senior counselees rated their respective counselors by completing the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory. Moderate relationships…

An argument is posited for dealing with urban dilemmas through the perspective of interpersonal communications. In response to the contemporary revolution in communications technology, the concept of the community is redefined to encompass all the people with whom an individual communicates, regardless of geographic location. Social and political…