Likening gifted teaching to artistry in other fields, such as music, the author reports on some experimental attempts to define virtuosity in teaching. The qualities he delineates include common sense, intuition, imagination, understanding of both subject and learner, and dexterity in "staging" learning experiences. (SJL)

The extent to which college students performed differentially on 3 x 3 figural analogies administered under two elaborative testing conditions was investigated. Results indicated that subjects who demonstrated a preferred testing condition performed more effectively upon retesting than did a control group not displaying differential performance as…

The major research project analyzed 15 death scales completed by college students and results uncovered five orthogonal death-attitude factors, indicating that multiple death attitudes coexist and covary within individuals. An alternative analysis of the data suggests four scales measure general response to death. The original authors defend their…

College students (N=253) rated the effects they expected from drinking alcohol along various dimensions. Results showed that subjects expected moderate drinking to result in relatively greater stimulation/perceived dominance and pleasurable disinhibition, whereas for heavy drinking they expected a greater degree of behavioral impairment. (Author)

Suggests cognitive style as a conceptual approach to older adult instruction. Summarizes data on younger learners obtained through this approach. Results of initial research indicated older adults prefer the field-dependent cognitive approach to content and methodology. Implications for elderly education are discussed. (RC)

Relations between personality and happiness were examined in three studies. It was argued that (a) different sets of traits influence type of affect and of satisfaction; (b) extraversion and neuroticism influence type of affect and of satisfaction; and (c) personality differences antedate and predict differences in happiness over a 10-year period.…

Results indicate that feminists and nonfeminists of both sexes have disparate perceptions of desirable characteristics for women. Nonfeminists describe ideal men and women in terms of traditional stereotypes. Feminists describe the ideal person as possessing masculine sex-role characteristics. (Author/BEF)

The right of the individual to make personal choices in health matters without undue pressure from health educators is discussed. (JD)

Results indicated that female monozygotic twins were more satisfied with their total self-concepts, including categories of identity, behavior, moral-ethical, personal, family, and number of deviant scores, when compared with male monozygotic twins. (Author)

Revealed a statistically significant difference between alcoholic and nonalcoholic oral syntactic performance, with alcoholic subjects committing greater numbers of syntactic and semantic errors than nonalcoholics. Indicated a deficiency in the integrative and descriptive aspects of alcoholics' oral language performance. (RL)

The author reviews some research, particularly that of Roger Sperry, substantiating the existence of different thinking styles in the two brain hemispheres and the development of this differentiation in infancy and childhood. She draws some implications for elementary teaching. (SJL)

Discusses studies by Donald LaSalle showing that students' performance can vary widely over the day according to the workings of their individual biological clocks. Presents exercises to help children identify their own "body rhythm prime time" and suggests rescheduling instruction to accommodate these differences. Condensed from…

Individual differences in pattern of habituation in fixation time and cardiac change to visual and auditory stimuli are described. Subjects were 94 5- and 10-month-old infants. (Author/MP)

The self-esteem of 120 males with and without specific learning disabilities, at each of two levels of development (preadolescent and adolescent) was measured using Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory. (MP)