A learning organization set up to pursue meta- or process-goals for management students is described in terms of its theoretical bases and course structure. Student perceptions of the course and its outcomes are compared with expectations; discrepancies are discussed along with criticisms of the approach within a university context. (JMF)

Summarizes the major research findings on the relationship between television violence and aggressive behavior; concludes that, while there is no definitive proof that such a relationship exists, the evidence points strongly in that direction. (GT)

Americans must learn to consider good health as a total life-style concept that demands continuous and active participation of all individuals. (LH)

The important intrinsic rewards of play present in athletic endeavour are being subjugated to wider societal pressures such as achievement orientation and overly competitive attitudes. (LH)

Compared populations of Arts and Sciences students who had determined their majors and those who had not. The determined group was more likely to remain in school and to achieve greater academic success than the undetermined group. More women tended to have declared majors than did men. (Author)

External orientation was significantly related to feelings of political incapability. Early personal orientation toward problem solving led to generalized expectations providing long-range motivational and behavioral patterns for individuals throughout life. (Author/NRB)

Examines the legitimacy of the use of personality traits as antecedent variables in the explanation of communicative behaviors. Focuses on the conceptual and empirical justification for one assumption of the trait approach: cross-situational consistency. This assumption was not supported for the traits of reticence or predisposition toward verbal…

A Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS) was devised and tested on 30 inpatient children (6 to 12 years old) in a medical hospital. A high correlation was found between global ratings by two psychiatrists of severity of depression and scores on the CDRS. Journal availability: American Academy of Pediatrics, P.O. Box 1034, Evanston, IL 60204.…

Maintains that modern sociology has paid too little attention to the concepts of imitation and suggestion and presents new findings indicating that these concepts have a powerful impact on social behavior. Presents evidence that automobile fatalities increase several days after a publicized suicide and relates these and related findings to…

Focusing on a group of drug users, this article examines behavioral and attitudinal coping strategies in paranoia and illustrates how the management of paranoia may create elaborate interaction rituals which serve both to "protect" group participants and to reinforce a collective orientation among them. (Author/EB)

Presents a study demonstrating that aid-giving by children is predicated by nonverbal displays of submission emitted by the child under attack, and that although the children observing the episodes respond to the displays, the aggressor ignores them. (JMF)

Supports the tenet that American college students tend to make assertions that correspond to their sex-role stereotypes. (RL)

The investigation involving 24 blind children (2-11 years old) set out to develop and validate a coding procedure which employed a set of 34 descriptors with their corresponding definitions. The use of the taxonomy enabled a detailed, systematic study of manneristic behavior in blind children. (Author/SBH)