A delay-of-gratification experiment among Hopi children demonstrated a surprisingly high ability to delay gratification, a quality possibly nutured in horticultural societies which train children to be responsible for caring of the crops. (Author/KM)

Learning is most effective to adults if the ideas presented are personally relevant. New experiences fit into existing frameworks. The teacher is more guide than information giver. (MS)

The approach of the Milwaukee Reading Center Program is total'' in that while improvement in a child's reading skill is central, the program has a much broader impact, helping the child develop mentally, emotionally, and in personality. (Author/CB)

This paper discusses psychoanalytic contributions concerning both the development and the facilitation of qualities such as empathy, love for neighbor social-mindedness, identification, sympathy, and altruism; and neurotic manifestations of altruism and of other positive qualities. (Author/JM)

This study of whether social-psychological orientations are cause or effect of action in groups presented no simple answer, but findings indicate that interpersonal and status factors can determine peace group memberships and biographical data suggest that orientations predisposing to peace group membership take shape in youth and early adulthood…

The Psychological Growth Index, a true-false questionnaire of 140 items, has been administered to 7,500 individuals in the 14 to 22 age group to distinguish psychologically mature adolescents from less-fully mature peers. Author claims after careful statistical scrutiny instrument remains clinically valid. (DS)

Author points out discrepancies in testing methods and goals for developing students' personalities and identities. (HS)

Presents some educational principles, which are intended to ensure conditions indispensable for the all-round development of each individual, and suggests those principles as a basis for modernizing the present educational system and adult education. (Author/RK)

In delineating a program of moral education for the schools, the question must be asked whether a framework of moral education can be provided that is constructive and responsible, and that does not simply impose a set of authoritarian values, yet give a child some guidance. (Author)

Given our present moral knowledge and human needs, a new discipline of Life Values Education, and particularly of Life Values guidance and counseling, is both a possibility and necessity. (Author)

Paper presented at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)