The responses of 20 trainable retarded children, 10 to 16 years of age, and 20 nonretarded 4- to 5-year-old children to social and nonsocial matching-to-sample tasks were compared during the extinction period which followed the use of social and nonsocial rewards. (Author)

The major premise of the current study is that subjects with high self-esteem scores plus high Marlowe-Crowne scores should show behavior patterns similar to those of low self-esteem subjects. (Author)

Discussed are procedures for the charting of behavior changes to provide feedback for child and teacher which are reported to have been used at one school for autistic and neurologically impaired children. (DB)

This paper reports two companion studies which establish that there is a significant relationship between an individual's personality characteristics and his pattern of job-seeking behavior. Individuals who are tough-minded, independent and nonneurotic had specified job goals and self-actualized behavior. Individuals who were sensitive, dependent…

Interview behavior of trainees was rated by trainees themselves and by peers on intended and actual interview behavior. Counselor trainees perceived no significant differences, while peers found a gap between intended and actual behavior. (CJ)

This paper includes a general description of the plan for investigating student work loads and gives details of the 2 studies conducted at Monash University concerning work loads in 1972. (Editor)

Suggests that children's literature in developing countries include the richness of both historical and scientific themes. (RB)

Describes the study of Proxemics, i.e., body language, and presents a notational system for various types of interaction among people. (RB)

Article discusses the needs of the quiet child and the responsibility of the teacher to be alert and sensitive to this type of elementary school student. (GB)

Examines the different patterns of leadership behavior from which a manager can choose in relating with nonmanagers. Suggests a framework for managers caught in the dilemma of when to exert strong'' leadership and when to exercise permissive'' leadership. (WM)

An attempt is made to point out that a major fountainhead and source of delinquency in North America is the public schools. Academic performance is a vastly superior predictor of delinquency than is class origin. (FF)

Although subjects were able to adapt to loud noise and other stressors in laboratory experiments, they clearly demonstrated adverse aftereffects. (DM)

This study attempted to ascertain the relationship between personality variables and the use of social settings. A factor analysis yielded a structure which generally supported the hypothesis of interrelations among personality variables and use of behavior settings. As predicted, factors of action-oriented behavior emerged. (Author)