This study considered the way in which female and male music and nonmusic majors matched six paintings of Klee with the twenty-one compositions that inspired them. Purpose was to determine whether there were differences among the subjects with regard to their sex and to their major areas of study. (Author/CB)

Treats various state's laws on corporal punishment in schools as it affects students and teachers. Recommends that corporal punishment be used only as self-defense measure. (DS)

This study addresses itself to a determinant of the MUM effect - namely communicator mood, and, as well, the interaction between communicator and recipient. (Author/RK)

A technique is described which encourages clients to employ mental imagery in increasing self-awareness and emotional expression. (Author)

Surveyed are 53 techniques for measuring human physical characteristics and emotional responses in the belief that problems should be solved on the basis of what is good for people.'' (BL)

Tested the prediction that individual differences in sensation seeking moderate the relationship between attitudinal similarity and attraction. Results showed high sensation seekers were more attracted than low sensation seekers to dissimilar others, whereas low sensation seekers were more attracted than high sensation seekers to people with…

Tested relationships between mood states, self-reflection, and helpfulness. Subjects read mood-inducing statements negative in content, containing the personal pronoun "I;" negative but not self-referencing; emotionally positive in content; emotionally neutral; or no statements. Results showed self-reflection was responsible for…

Among samples of Australian unemployed, younger and older people had different psychological reactions to unemployment. Age was a better predictor of psychological reactions than sex, length of unemployment, or migrant status. The younger unemployed showed less tolerance of others and less self-reliance than older people. (Author/MJL)

Research on psychotropic drug use by the mentally retarded and associated behavioral toxicity is reviewed, and suggestions for future research are offered, with implications for community based service delivery. (SEW)

Emphasizes the importance of play therapy for hospitalized children. Describes separation anxiety and psychological patterns including protest, despair, and denial. Describes the play therapy program at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, which helps children express their fears and cope with anxiety. (JAC)

Theatre is that art form most dramatically akin to life before electricity and the mechanical tools that now characterize most other modes of communication. We are still mammalian and still concerned with basic principles of reciprocity and interaction; theatre permits people to display emotions in front of others. (Author/GC)

Examined whether a total score on a multidimensional measure of trait anxiety could supplement the ability of individual dimension scale scores in predicting state anxiety responses to dimension-congruent stress. Results support the multidimensional approach to general trait anxiety but indicate that a total score would supplement predictions.…

Perceived risk, defined as a multidimensional psychological phenomenon which influences individuals' decisions, was measured in 68 adults for 20 leisure activities. Overall risk and six component factors of risk associated with leisure are analyzed: (1) financial; (2) performance; (3) physical; (4) psychological; (5) social; and (6) time loss. (FG)