An experiment was conducted in which perceptions of an individual responding to an initial disclosure were examined. Observer subjects (N=315) read a brief description of a first encounter between two women. During the meeting one of the women made either an intimate or a non-intimate disclosure (low vs. high initial intimacy). The other woman…

Second grade classroom protocols collected within this volume are examples of the protocols developed by the ethnographers associated with Special Study A: "An Ethnographic Study of the Forty Classrooms of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study." Twenty teachers at both the second and fifth grades were observed for one week by an…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDREN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD SCHOOL AND THEIR BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM WAS EXPLORED. SUBJECTS WERE 125 STUDENTS IN FOUR SIXTH GRADE CLASSROOMS IN A PREDOMINATELY WHITE WORKING CLASS SUBURB. THE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR OF THE SUBJECTS WAS OBSERVED OVER A THREE MONTH PERIOD. QUESTIONNAIRES DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE CHILDREN'S…

Sex differences in children's reactions to failure feedback in school situations were investigated by assessing the ways in which teachers use negative evaluation in the classroom. Three aspects of teachers' evaluative feedback were studied: (1) ratio of negative to positive feedback; (2) contingency vs. noncontingency of feedback; and (3) (the…