Presents two studies that replicated and extended J. K. Burgoon and R. C. Koper's research by examining nonverbal behavior patterns, relational message interpretations, and credibility evaluations associated with communication reticence. Challenges the traditional view that reticence produces pronounced performance decrements and discusses…

This guide to accompany the student text presents lesson plans dealing with the influence of society on behavior. Lessons are designed to help students increase their ability to use the following techniques of social science research: (1) participant observation; (2) data manipulation; (3) questionnaire survey; (4) field manipulation; and (5)…

This document contains two curriculum guides, the first dealing with accountability skills and the second with social skills. The guides are products of project GOAL (Guidance Opportunities for Affective Learning), a program intended to meet the social/emotional needs of handicapped mainstreamed students in grades K-6 by improving classroom…