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Hendricks, C. G.; And Others – 1975
Anxiety, or stress and tension, is a major problem in education for teachers as well as students. Training in the self-management of stress and tension seeks to help a person learn how to reduce tension and how to change the stress-producing features of the environment. The training program described in this paper is based on a variation of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research
Zamith-Cruz, Judith; Pires-Antunes, Carla; Faceira, Maria Joao – 1999
This paper reports on the introduction of an exploratory program on emotional development, "Drawing Emotions," through which instructors try to: (1) help the child learn how to deal with feelings; (2) ascertain relational difficulties; (3) apprehend their own questions which were not answered; and (4) interfere in the presence of risks…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Behavioral Science Research
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Kuwabara, Ko – Social Forces, 2005
This article extends Simpson's (2003) research on sex differences in social dilemmas. To test the hypotheses that men defect in response to greed and women to fear, Simpson created Fear and Greed Dilemmas, but experiments using these games supported the greed hypothesis only. In this article I focus on why the fear hypothesis failed and suggest…
Descriptors: Fear, Gender Differences, Hypothesis Testing, Demonstration Programs
Lazarsfeld, Paul F., Ed. – 1975
This document is the first in a multi-document final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Program in Educational Research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, September 1972 to August 1974. Part one of this document gives a brief overview of the entire final report, describing the three products emerging from the program (student growth,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Educational Problems, Educational Research, Graduate Study
California Univ., Los Angeles. Committee on Civic Education.
This report from the Committee on Civic Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the origin, activities, and future plans of the committee, whose major aim is the acquisition of intellectual skills rather than large amounts of factual knowledge or the development of "democratic attitudes" in the study of civics. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Citizenship Responsibility, Civics, Civil Liberties
Cox, Richard H., Ed. – 1979
The papers included in this collection focus on two topics: teaching behavior in physical education, or women in sport. The papers include the following: A Model for the Study of Pygmalion Effects in Physical Education; A Need to Look at Dyadic Interactions; An Observational Study of Teacher's Expectancy Effects and Their Mediating Mechanisms;…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research