Using 144 high school physics classes as units of analysis, class means on a battery of 57 variables were factored in three different factor sets. Each set included three main factors which could be identified roughly as achievement, affect, and group structure. Results gave further credibility to Bales' work. (Author/KR)

Examines the effects of adult nurturance and nurturance withdrawal on the behavior of kindergarten and second grade children. Adult-child interactions and consistency in adult behaviors were also examined. (BD/BR)

Tests predictions concerning the effectiveness of four different strategies for teaching 3-to 4-year-old children how to master a difficult construction task. Subjects were 32 preschool children. ( BD)

Crisis theory suggests that the major sign of organizational crisis is progressively rising tension, which results in emergency efforts to mobilize tension-reducing sources. A case study of an organizational crisis is presented to illustrate the applicability of crisis theory to an organization. Suggestions for interventions are offered. (Author)

A simple test is described that has proven highly effective when used by married couples. It can be self-administered. Couples who use it can learn a great deal about their relationship and do so in terms of positive insights which they can then use to promote mutual growth. (Author)

This review examines published research on small-group development done in the last ten years that would constitute an empirical test of Tuckman's hypothesis that groups go through the stages of "forming,""storming,""norming," and "performing." A fifth stage, "adjourning," was added to the…

Discusses a study dealing with English, Northern Italian and Southern Italian encoders role-playing specific emotions and degrees of two dimensions of emotion, and presents evidence suggesting that for neither the English nor the Italians, do hand gestures and other bodily cues function as a major communication channel for emotion. Available from:…

Develops a working model of the communication process which corresponds to the ego states of transactional analysis and attempts to discern effects of personality systems on the encoding and decoding process of individuals. (MH)

Provides research data supporting the hypothesis that communication apprehension is negatively related to the amount of self-disclosure. (MH)

Twelve couples in marital counseling were studied during 12 months on the basis of their biorhythms. For each couple a compatibility percentage was obtained. It was found that difficulties in their interaction correlated highly with dissonance in their biorhythms. (Author)

Explores the dimensions of self-concept in response to sensitivity training, i.e., that psychologically healthy participants would make greater gains in self-actualization than would those participants who viewed themselves as less healthy. Results support the hypothesis. (Author/HMV)

Examined effectiveness of different empathy training approaches with high and low conceptual level (CL) trainees and effects of client ambivalence on empathic responding. High CL trainees were found to be more empathic to ambivalent affect statements, while no difference was found on responses to nonambivalent statements. (Author)

This paper (1) discusses methodological issues in the study of interaction; (2) describes a statistical approach to data analysis that derives the amount of interaction empirically from separate and independent observations of simultaneously occurring behaviors of mother-child dyads; and (3) discusses the application of this technique to the…

To explore the issue of the impact of group tradition on decision-making performance, the present study was designed to compare the decision-making effectiveness of ad hoc and established groups engaged in a consensus-type decision-making task. (Author)