According to an ecological perspective in psychology and in line with social cognitive theory, smoking behaviour is determined by different social contexts (for example, peers, family and school) providing adolescents with important role models. This paper investigates the effects of personal characteristics as well as family, peer and school…

This article profiles teacher Leroy Silva (Laguna), 27, a.k.a. "Buster". Silva describes himself as an active guy who stays busy working out, playing basketball, softball, and more recently golf, soccer, and lacrosse. He teaches personal wellness and sports (not physical education), a job he began in 2006. Before that he was a trainer at…

This article discusses ways on how to address the problem of sexual harassment in schools. Sexual harassment--simply defined as any unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior--is a sensitive topic. Merely providing students, parents, and staff members with information about the school's sexual harassment policy is insufficient; schools must take…

This exploratory study examines the importance of mentor/mentee relationships on faculty development by measuring how social exchange between new faculty members (mentees) in information systems and their former dissertation chairs (mentors) relate to how quickly the new faculty members completed their doctoral program and the number of peer…

This year's crop of "Emerging Scholars"--The Class of 2008--includes a math biologist who was only the second woman to receive the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in math; a geneticist who recently became one of 20 winners of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers; and an extensively published…

An argument on the conditions under which colleges will be able to affect the role allocation of students emphasizes that colleges may differ in the kinds of people they are expected to produce and in the kinds of changes in individuals that they can expect to affect. (Author/KM)

Presents a study of the effects of training 18 subjects, 28-40 months, in the use of two-word subject-verb utterances. The study focused on: (1) the number of different semantic relations underlying the subject-verb form in which the child is trained, and (2) the relationship between the semantic relations and ongoing, experimentally manipulated…

This study of the physical health of school nurses emphasizes that the nurses are not providing good role models for promoting physical fitness and health. (DS)

The characteristics of adult male and female models in randomly selected television commercials were systematically coded and several significant sex differences were discovered. These sex differences are discussed in the context of research which suggests that peoples' sex-role behaviors and attitudes may be influenced by televised models.…

Analyzes the works of Ayn Rand, concluding that they provide positive female role models. (DD)

Defines aggression, discusses two theories regarding aggression in the human being, and the effects of punishment, role modeling, and violence on aggressive behavior. (RK)

The special challenges that face the husband of the president of Kennesaw College are described. (MLW)

States issues regarding interdisciplinary work, and discipline limitations, and notes three limiting perspectives that are part of the transactions between sociologists and psychoanalysis. Describes the ways sociologists have approached, been exposed to, and been influenced by psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge and an organized body of…

The behavior modeling concept is discussed and ways of building these models on film or tape are presented. Points that are examined include (1) dressing the set, (2) perfect versus coping performance, (3) real versus neutral content, and (4) negative versus positive examples. (CT)