Describes an approach to facilitating students' understanding of themselves and others. It utilizes attribution theory, perceptual psychology, and literature to help students understand what leads people--themselves and others--to do the things they do. (Author/RK)

Provides research data supporting the hypothesis that communication apprehension is negatively related to the amount of self-disclosure. (MH)

Explores three possible sources of influence which the experimental psychologist may have upon the reading instructor: psychological findings, psychological models, and research methodology. Discusses who is responsible for applying psychological findings to educational concerns. (JM)

Reports on the analysis of 27 behavior modification programs for delinquents. Findings reveal that a low percentage of the programs have followup mechanisms and that the behavior which is modified is often not that which caused the problem. (CP)

Self prompting techniques were used to influence people to turn off lights in bathrooms. After consumers were given a method for self monitoring their behavior there was a significant drop in the number of times lights were left on in unoccupied bathrooms. (AJ)

The author examines the relationships existing between movement and cognition in child development. (MJB)

Behaviorism would have us believe that the individual is powerless in his environment. (DAG)

This study investigated the effect of overt self-verbalization of various contents on the delay maintenance behavior of preschool, second grade and third grade children in a task in which the child's possession of accumulating candy rewards was made contingent upon the child's stopping further accumulation. (BD)

Twenty-eight 10-month-old infants were observed by two independent teams, one measuring activity in the home situation and one measuring attachment behaviors in a videotaped standard laboratory sequence. (MS)

Concludes that linguistic and visual-linguistic training sessions do not increase children's ability to comprehend reversible passive sentences. (MH)

Cites numerous specific factors affecting student interpersonal skill achievement and cognitive achievement in interpersonal communication instruction noting instructional implications. (MH)

Assesses noncollege, Caucasian readers' perceptions of radical and neutral editorials, attributed to authors of varying sex and ethnicity. (KS)

Indicates that factors other than sex play the major role in determining employee response patterns. (KS)