This document focuses on the experiences of three beginning teachers, contrasting the personal perspective of each teacher (the "Inside Voice") as reported to the researcher, and the more removed perspective developed by the researcher him/herself (the "Outside Eyes"). The first teacher instructs a single class at an urban vocational high school…

The two-alternative forced-choice technique, which has been used to examine hysterical blindness, was used to assess purported loss of hearing in a 27-year-old male. The results are discussed in terms of using the forced-choice technique as a strategy for assessing sensory deficits. (Author)

Depression in a college population was found to be correlated with small changes in many activities rather than with the large reductions in overt behavior reported for clinically depressed individuals. Results of the study suggest the possibility of an operant component in maintaining depressive behavior. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of a group counseling program introduced into the Navy basic training curriculum. With the exception of anger, negative moods declined and positive moods increased over the course of training for both control and experimental groups. (Author)

Three experiments explored the effects of variation in room illumination and in seating distance between members of a small group on moods, evaluations, attraction, and opinion expression. The results indicate that interaction distance is not per se a very powerful variable. (Author)

One hundred fifteen members of the organization Parents Without Partners were surveyed for their communication attitudes in a study examining the relationship between rhetorical sensitivity and a dramatic, stress-producing situation--the loss of a spouse through death, legal separation, or divorce. The survey measured the ways the subjects matched…

A study examined the relationship between communicator attitudes and communication behavior by having 122 college students complete the RHETSEN scale of communication attitudes and the Communicator Style Measure. The RHETSEN scale characterizes communication attitudes according to three communicator types: (1) the "rhetorically…

The effect of stereotypes can be diluted by the presentation of additional facts about the target person. This dilution can be accomplished by the presentation of facts about the target person and by presenting no facts but simply inducing the subject to imagine or make guesses about the target person. A feature matching model is used to interpret…

It was hypothesized that women in different current life circumstances would emphasize different life content areas in verbal reports of their life histories. A basically homogeneous sample of 30 women (average age = 58.5) was divided into women who had never had children, women whose children had left home, and women who had at least one child…

TWO CLOSELY RELATED ART LEARNING EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN A SETTING WHERE COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES, TRAINED AND UNTRAINED IN ART, MADE SEQUENTIAL DRAWINGS OVER A 6- AND 7-WEEK PERIOD UNDER RELATIVELY CONSTANT CONDITIONS, EXCEPT FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF CONTROLLED TREATMENT INFLUENCES. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT WAS BUILT, IN PART, ON THE OUTCOMES OF…