Prospective follow-up study of 70 males with Asperger syndrome (AS), and 70 males with autism more than 5 years after original diagnosis. Instruments used at follow-up included overall clinical assessment, the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders, Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, and Global…

Public schools have historically embedded mechanisms for control within their policies and procedures through a variety of means. This article investigates a moderately sized integrated public school system in an upscale to low socioeconomic Big Ten university community in Illinois. Through descriptive measures, the author examines the racial…

John C. Weidman (1989) was one of the first to argue that a socialization model is necessary to fully understand college impact. Weidman also contends that socioeconomic status (SES) is an important part of the socialization process for students. In fact, he placed such emphasis on SES that he included it in two locations within his model: (1)…

The current rapid economic development in mainland China strongly demands that the world understand the People's Republic of China's (PRC) negotiating behaviors to ensure a successful business transaction. This study examined the PRC business negotiating behaviors by interviewing 16 Hong Kong businesspersons who have experiences in doing business…

Americn society is experiencing a sex-role revolution. This revolution is transforming the roles and status of men and women in American society. These changes appear to be the result of the rapid social changes sweeping the country. While men and women may be freer to follow their desires and aspirations, this revolution has also produced new…

The affective relationship between six male and one female preschool-aged autistic children and their parents was studied by employing a method enabling systematic analysis of parent/child interaction. Children ranged in age from 3 years, 7 months to 6 years, 4 months. Through use of the Bank Interaction Coding System (BICS), behaviorial sequences…

Subjects (N=60) read elation, depression and neutral self-referent mood statements and then answered a number of questionnaires with cognitive and affective content. Subjects in the elated mood group performed better on cognitive tasks than the depressed mood subjects plus they reported less depression than the latter. (SE)

Through analysis of data obtained by interviews with female mental patients at a hospital emphasizing short-term care, labeling theory was qualified to include the notion of individual reactions to labels. Some techniques used by mental patients to resist labeling were described. (Author/NQ)

The purpose of this study was to explore a group of non-dating pre-adolescents meaning of dating by investigating their reasons for engaging in this social behavior and their perception of those activities that constituted this role from their present frame of reference. (Author)

This article analyzed reputation and social identity as a prelimenary understanding of the adolescent girl's social world. (Author/RK)

Scientific-technological progress and its social consequences are clarified in relation to the moral practices and conditions of socialist society. (Author/KM)

This article examines the question of student over-familiarity with student teachers, especially in the practice of addressing student teachers by a proper name without benefit of the prefix "Mr.,""Mrs.,""Miss," or even "Ms." (Author/JA)

The structure of speaker-auditor interaction was explored, using detailed language transcriptions and body-motion behavior. Three signals were hypothesized: a speaker within-turn signal, an auditor back-channel signal, and a speaker continuation signal. Signal sequences marked speaking turn units of interaction. (CK)

After an extensive review of the literature on the theoretical underpinnings of humor in human interaction, a six-category typology of humor was developed and exemplified by examples from mass media comedy. Humor can first be divided into two major types: individual level humor or social level humor. These levels are then further divided into the…

The present study compared the presence of sibling versus non-sibling partners in relation to the exploratory behaviors of toddlers in a novel environment. It was predicted that young children would use siblings as a secure base from which to explore the environment even in the absence of an adult attachment figure, whereas the presence of a…