Two experiments studied five- to eight-year-old children's capacity to resist temptation as a function of observing a deviant model. (CM)

Presents a theoretical approach with some practical strategies for resolving marital and family conflicts. The steps are: owning one's position, understanding the other person's position, and resolving the conflict. The method serves as a model resulting in the development of more effective communicators and communication patterns. (Author/BEF)

The study examined the behavior of four retarded adults before and after moving from an institution to community living arrangements. (Author/SBH)

Counselors must select strategies that maximize the probability of helping clients achieve personal goals. These stratefies may focus on changing how clients think, feel, or act (T-F-A). Effective counselors need to systematically use varying combinations of T-F-A strategies that will best facilitate changes in clients' behavior. (Author)

Determines whether subliminal perception can be used as a means for altering cigarette smoking behavior. Smoking behavior was not altered through subliminal perception as carried out in this study. There was evidence that smoking behavior was altered, but it was an unpredicted change. Some subjects decreased smoking patterns. (Author)

A sex education course increased students' tolerance of sexual behavior in relationships involving affection or commitment to marriage. (JD)

Describes behavioral exchange contracting in which an agreement binds a worker and a client or members of a family to change specific, measurable behaviors. Maintains that behavioral contracting offers a realistic, structured approach to resolving problems in a variety of situations. (CM)

Both interventions produced dramatic and comparable increases in positive social behavior in training sessions; however, post-treatment responding was not observed for either intervention during generalization assessment. (Author/DLS)

A psychologist provides helpful suggestions for teachers having trouble with negativistic, impulsive, passive-dependent, and anxious children. (CM)

A behavior management program which uses media activities as reinforcers for maintenance and acquisition of appropriate classroom behaviors is described. Ways of using technology-based activities to encourage desirable behavior are discussed. (MP)

A total of 72 children aged 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 were studied in a test of three hypotheses: younger children will use cues adaptively in a simple but not a complex situation; older children will act adaptively in both situations; the rate of change accelerates from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 years old. (MS)

Describes a two-year experiment to begin in July 1977 in which a Yugoslavian, Milutin Veljkovic, will stay underground to study the human physiological and psychological adjustment to the isolation of the cave. Only contact with outside world will be a computer terminal linked to researchers above ground. (CS)

Authors describes Holland's article as "...an extraordinary act of moral perception and intellectual courage." However, he continues, in the case of behavior modification methods, it may not be a matter of warning against abuse of a good thing, but rather a matter of warning against use of a bad thing. (Author/RW)

Subjects (N=20) participated in a smoking-reduction program that attempted to assess the initial effectiveness of a rapid-smoking procedure administered to groups. Results are discussed in terms of self-set and the attribution of behavior change. (Author)