The research papers in the current Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 2) invitational issue on temperament are examined from the perspective of previous research and the indications they provide for critical unsolved issues concerning temperament. (Author)

Following a description of the stages of impulse management, the article reviews curricular implications for interventions based on the students' needs at each stage. (CL)

Differentiates between punishment and discipline. Personal interaction styles, the environment, schedules, and personal expectations are discussed as having an effect on children's behavior. Recommends that techniques rely on problem-solving skills in helping children become self-disciplined. (AS)

Seventeen educable mentally handicapped and learning disabled students (9-12 years old) who participated in a self-instruction (cognitive behavior modification) group scored better than a control group on the operations area of the KeyMath Diagnostic Test. Systematic instructional variables (such as precise assessment and task-analyzed curriculum)…

A two-stage intervention successfully eliminated a 9-year-old boy's intensive fear in a new school setting. First, the child learned to identify a cue accompanying strong anxiety response; second, he learned to induce a competing cognitive coping response--blocking negative feelings with confidence--reinforcing song lyrics. Author/CMG)

Children who were forbidden use of an attractive toy were later tempted with attractive prizes to falsify scores. Subjects who complied with the initial severe threat showed less resistence to temptation than control subjects. (JB)

Paper presented at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

The O-H (Overcontrolled-Hostility) scale was developed to distinguish among normal subjects and groups of extremely assaultive, moderately assaultive and nonviolent prisoners on the basis of 31 MMPI items. (Authors/CB)

The discipline needed by man to live in the age of automation and the computer and how this discipline can be taught to children are discussed under the headings of Concentration, Criticism, and Communication. (DB)

Teachers can help learning and behavior disordered students in middle and secondary grades develop self control through a strategy in which students are taught to stop, look, listen, and think before carrying out a task. The final step is to reinforce themselves. (CL)

Research relevant to the development of internal control of altruism is reviewed, and the need for integrating the various approaches to the study of altruism into one model is noted. (MP)