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Damico, Sandra B. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
This ethnographic study of a self-contained classroom of eight-, nine-, and ten-year-olds examined sexual differences in peer interactions. Within the observed classroom, males and females established separate social systems which had only limited contact with each other. Males were found to interact with significantly more classmates than…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Children, Elementary Education, Interaction Process Analysis
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Barnett, David W.; Zucker, Karl B. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Explores the predictability of friendly, cooperative behavior of school children over a 5-week period. The basis for the predictions was the children's others-concept, as measured by the Paired Hands Test. In three tasks out of five the high others-concept children showed a higher frequency and greater proportion of task-related and friendly…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Children, Elementary Education
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Richey, Harold; Richey, Marjorie H. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Some selected principles of Heider's balance theory are presented and the p-o-x model is explained as a theoretical framework for predicting responses to interpersonal situations in which the participants are in attitudinal agreement or disagreement. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Observation Techniques, Group Dynamics