Eight speech clinicians responded to questionnaires and audiotapes designed to analyze clinician-child discourse in a language remediation setting with 5- to 8-year-old language delayed children. (Author/CL)

This overview of sex-role development in children focuses on sex typing, sex-role stereotyping, and ways to assist children in sex-role development. (CM)

Investigates the effects of communication apprehension on listeners by focusing on the extent to which the apprehension of the sender influences his/her communication effectiveness as perceived by the receiver. (MH)

Discusses findings which suggest that frequency adverbs do affect the perceived aggresiveness of sentences at most levels of verbal aggression. (MH)

Results suggested that preschool age siblings may facilitate mastery of the object environment by infants. (Author/JMB)

This study uses two methods of analysis to examine the degree to which items within the cells of the Hill Interaction Matrix correlate. It is found that the table of specifications does not hold up. But the author recommends caution in interpreting this finding. (Author/BP)

Questionnaires were administered to a sample of adults to assess the extent of social distance between people of different ages. The findings suggest that the greater the age difference (younger or older) between people, the greater the social distance they feel. (Author)

Examines various measures such as intensity, frequency and reciprocity of hits used in a game fight between spouses and attempts to relate such actions to the amount of discord reported in the represented marriages. (MH)

While the principle of successive approximations (learning as a series of small steps) has its difficulties in application, it is an effective technique for improving teacher skills in observing student behavior and in changing that behavior. (MJB)

Attempts to discover whether direct gaze is seen as facilitating social comparison and if the relationship between direct gaze and liking is reversed when the subject is motivated to avoid social comparison. (Author/RK)

Focuses on factors or behaviors considered most influential in affecting communication climate within a large telecommunications corporation. (MH)

Oral responses of 180 male and female undergraduates to scenarios containing positive-loving, neutral-informational, and/or negative-rejecting male child communications were obtained. Responses were scored along 25 specific categories, as well as a global rating of acceptance/rejection of child. (Author/JMB)

Compares a female caregiver's interactions with children characterized as Type A, impatient and competitive, to her interactions with children who are characterized as patient and non-competitive, Type B. The effects of the caregiver's behavior patterns (Type A or B) on the interaction process are also analyzed. (JMB)

Tests the hypothesis that a response to a given feedback statement will be its reciprocal. In Phase 1, a pool of feedback statements was written and scaled along dimensions of power (dominance-submission) and affect (affection-hostility). In Phase 2, these statements were used as the basis for giving feedback and replying to it. (Author)