Describes and evaluates a two person, non-zero sum game entitled "Prisoner's Dilemma." Data are presented from a study which measured the relationship between social behavior and level of moral reasoning of game participants. Ways of using the game in the classroom to develop moral reasoning are discussed. (Author/DB)

Outlines a strategy for sociology curriculum review based on the use of goals and objectives. The strategy involves selection of a set of goals, their specification as objectives, their arrangement in a hierarchy of goals and objectives, and establishment of levels of competence for each goal and objective. Potential difficulties in using the…

The arrangement and use of space are parts of the nonverbal communications system of the class and, as such, have effects on the performance and behavior of both students and teachers. (MJB)

It is argued that wheather the course of cognitive development is characterized by growth, stability, or decline is less a matter of the metamodel on which the theories and data are based. Such metamodels are representations of reality that are not empirically testable. (Author)

The results of this study suggest a practical alternative to increase the effectiveness of discipline in the home and school. Parents and teacher might well rehearse (reinstate) with the child the transgression sequence just prior to the discipline. (Author)

Reviewed are studies involved in the development and utilization of the experimental-longitudinal methods which involve behavior analyses of a number of behavioral repertoires and initiation of training procedures to produce the repertoires. (SBH)

In order to foster the responsible use of behavior modification procedures in the schools on a practical as well as a research basis, this article discusses ethical issues being considered by researchers and the involved public. (Author)

Recounts a study designed to evaluate the impact of a systematic program of curricular and affective approaches to race relations training on the attitudes and behaviors of white people. Available from: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey…

Relates an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that cognitive change resulting from information inputs can be represented as linear motion of concepts in multidimensional space. (MH)

Summarizes Karl Weick's Model of Organizing including its advantages and limitations and tests one of the claims fundamental to Weick's argument. (MH)

Discusses a study designed to measure the effects of message threat level, message quality, and initial receiver attitude on attitude change and evaluations of source credibility. (MH)

Attempts to provide an empirical basis for conducting present and future research into communication structure emphasizing the analysis of the complexity of the communication structure. (MH)

A total of 85 girls and boys aged 7, 10, and 14 years told stories involving nurturant adult characters and dominant adult characters. Differences in the relative mention of male and female characters were used to measure sex stereotyping and sex orientation. (JMB)

Investigates the group participant characteristic of unwillingness to communicate as it effects information processing in small groups. (MH)

The relationships are examined fo a behavior syndrome called "Type A behavior," characterized by chronic and excessive struggle, competitiveness, ambition, and impatience, to certain work patterns and job characteristics among a group of 236 managers. (Author/MLF)