The authors call on the profession to offer support and leadership on a national level to those counselors who wish to act as change agents. (Author)

Results of this study showed generally low correlations between the behavioral test and the self-report measures of specific fear. This finding is consistent with the proposal that fear is not organized in a unitary way but has several components. (Author)

Results support the hypothesized relationship between meaning and phobia. Semantic desensitization techniques based on counter conditioning of meaning were significantly effective in altering the semantic value of the word from unpleasantness to neutrality. (Author)

Despite the precautions in subject selection many of the usual sex differences appeared, including boys' higher level of aggression toward peers. (MH)

The author predicts that there will be greater sexual interest and participation among the higher educated women of the future. A new standard will move in the direction of equal sexual participation for men and women rather than in the direction of abstinence for both of them. (Author)

The author investigates the nature of gambling and analyzes the pathological or compulsive gambler psyche. (BY)

In comments addressed to the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, 1970, the author proposes that two levels of communication exist between the experimenter and his subjects: (1) the overt or the expected response and (2) the covert level or the guessed intent of the experimenter. (BY)

Factor analyses of ratings received by 617 patients in a state hospital for the mentally retarded, concerning 26 problem behaviors, indicated that five factors describe the behaviors. (Author)

The results showed predictable male and female differences and differences between the sexual behavior of the Norwegian sample and American samples tested by other investigators. The study lent some support to an appetitional theory of sexual motivation. (Author)

A brief look at the use of behavior management techniques in a class for retarded children and in a regular classroom. (AA)

The article concludes that the whole question of sexual life in ancient Mesopotamia is difficult to reconstruct and fraught with many uncertainties. Nevertheless, it seems certain that the ancient Mesopotamians had fewer prohibitions against sex than our own civilization, and regarded as acceptable many practices which later societies condemned.…