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Miller, Peggy J.; Sperry, Linda L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1988
This discussion is a response to the Saarni commentary (Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, October 1987) on the Miller and Sperry report (Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, January 1987) on the socialization of anger and aggression. (PCB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Child Caregivers, Cultural Influences

Bennett, Mark; Jarvis, Jan – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Discusses a technique for identifying the function of minimal responses in conversation. Describes a study in which subjects listened to one of two versions of a recorded conversation: one complete, one with minimal responses deleted. Concludes that minimal responses serve to denote agreement and suggest informality. (DK)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Feedback, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Wittrock, Merlin C. – 1989
Concepts in cognitive psychology are applied to the language used in military situations, and a sentence classification system for use in analyzing military language is outlined. The system is designed to be used, in part, in conjunction with a natural language query system that allows a user to access a database. The discussion of military…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Inferences