The Kindness Picture-Story Measure was constructed and given to subjects between the ages of 4 and young adulthood. Results showed that children acquire an understanding of different aspects of kindness at different ages. (DR)

Examination of the role of graduate student interaction during the general examination phase of a university doctoral program. The study finds a positive correlation between peer interaction and examination performance which varied across departments and achievement levels. (Author/AP)

Differences were found between father/son and father/daughter dyads in such behaviors as father prohibitions, child mischievousness, mutual proximity, toy exchange, and child toy play. A total of 107 father/child dyads involving year-old children were observed. (Author/RH)

Provides a rationale for women's groups and describes benefits to group members. The seven articles in this special issue deal with using a group approach to deal with anger, rape, lesbianism, sexuality awareness, issues for Black women and overcoming internal barriers to career development. (Author/JAC)

Social studies should help children answer the question: Why do people act the way they do? Ways in which elementary teachers can help children see a connection between the personal events in their own lives, inner feelings and senses, and the world beyond the classroom are described. (RM)

Calls for anthropologists to pay more attention to the process by which individuals learn about or "acquire" culture. Suggests study of first language acquisition offers a useful model for studying ways people learn cultural and social behaviors. (Author/GC)

In two experiments, the effects of modeling on multiple seriation and multiple classification skills in preschool children were examined. In the first study, children observed models who demonstrated either multidimensional grouping or ordering. In the second, children received only single classification training on the basis of form, color, or…

The national socialization process in Hungarian school children was investigated. Results suggest a general pattern on the development of national attitudes and indicate differences that are a function of the child's social background. (AM)

The majority of 197 respondents to a survey on mentoring among home economists indicated a single significant influence on their professional career development. The majority reported having female role models, but noted a lack of assistance in acquiring specific professional skills. (SK)

Presents a language arts unit designed to create bridges between the real world and the story in order to help children develop both social understanding and reading comprehension skills. (FL)

Becoming a faculty member in an academic nursing program encompasses the learning of a complex role. Because nursing is new to universities, there are few role models. A deliberate process needs to be designed to assist the novice faculty person in acquiring the role. (Author)

Relates the special problems of the homosexual adolescent, focusing specifically on negative social bias and its effect on the adolescent's psychological development and identity formation. (Author/CM)

Contributions of various clinical schools of thought to the theories about lawyering are examined, categorized by their emphasis on the individual attorney's role or the profession's in general. Although clinical legal education has matured, it is lacking in legal scholarship. Available from Dennis & Co., 251 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14203. (MSE)

Questions to stimulate discussion around five articles in the May-June 1981 issue of "Health Education" (v12 n3) are listed. (CJ)

Studies the attitudinal consequences of fear and victimization by focusing on the degree people of different ages express approval of violent behavior. Results indicate the experience of victimization socializes individuals to a view of violence as constituting an effective strategy for resolving interpersonal conflict, especially respondents…