A factorial design was utilized to investigate the effects of race on expressers and perceivers on the perception of seven emotions. Overall results indicated significant effects. (DM)

Research indicates that small children do not produce listener responses (head nods and brief vocalization) as frequently as adolescents and adults. (DS)

The study is exploratory and it investigates the distribution of the student role identity in two classroom instructional situations and in two standard research situations. The findings point to some stable distributions of the student identity. (Author)

The article presents a brief glimpse at the changing scene in elementary school education; and, further, it takes a look at the challenges, styles, and activities that will face the educational leader of the future. (Author)

Discusses the importance of visual effects, composition, and photographic equipment in quality photojournalism. (RB)

Analyzes characteristics and trends in children's literature from the Victorian age to the present. (RB)

This study was designed to investigate the developmental aspects of performance by a group of normal children on tasks constructed to measure auditory figure-ground perception, and to compare this function with academic achievement. (Author)

Research supported by a National Science Foundation grant to the University of Texas at Austin. (RS)

Psychological benefits derived from gardening, a leisure activity intimately involved with the natural environment, are examined. Three areas of benefits (tangible outcomes, primary gardening experiences, and sustained interest) were identified and related to the kind of garden, attitudinal, and role variables. (BL)

Two northern Canadian communities, Flin Flon and The Pas, are studied to ascertain social and psychological factors influencing perception of pollution and willingness to engage in corrective action. In spite of overwhelming, contrary evidence, residents felt environmental contamination was not a problem and were not prepared to contend with it.…

New efforts in career education focus largely upon the idea of work, and its multiple and related forms, without indicating an awareness that sexist prejudices still pervade the entire curriculum and are subtly reflected in the attitudes of the school personnel. (Author/CB)

Study sought to measure the relationship between the preference for complexity-asymmetry on the Welsh Figure Preference Tests and the degree of differentiation of form on a figure drawing task. Data indicated that passive appreciative behaviors were quite distinct from active manipulative behaviors in art learning experiences. (Author)

Telephone interviews were conducted with 12 experienced blind adults to determine the strategies and techniques they employed in locating point, linear, and areal symbols and in following a track on a pseudo-map. (GW)