Undergraduates, trained to discriminate understanding from nonunderstanding statements, verbally reinforced each statement they felt to be understanding during counselor interviews. Ratings indicated that beginning counselors had increased their understanding statements, suggesting that such statements can be a function of the number of…

Verbal feedback of test results to college students resulted in learning gains unrelated to age, GPA, employment, and number of college credits accumulated. (Editor)

An intriguing investigation into why individuals prefer some works of art over other works and what it means to art education. (Editor)

Purpose of the article is to provide a working format, or structure, for a positive approach toward helping the teacher understand and control classroom discipline at the psychological verbal level. (Authors)

A major task of teachers at all levels is to help students recognize that a great number of the words in our language have many meanings and that a particular word often conveys different meanings to different persons. (Author)

Subjects were assigned to four experimental groups: neurotic extraverts, stable extraverts, neurotic introverts, stable introverts, and a control group. Results indicated that introversion, and not neuroticism, facilitated conditioning processes. Neuroticism, however, did not interact on the conditioning of affective self disclosures. Introverted…

Generally, results indicated that the information about the interviewer and the information requested of the interviewee were significantly related to the verbal behavior of Ss in an ongoing interview situation. For the most part, predictions regarding the approval dimension were not supported. (Author)

A study supporting the contention that opinionation in a persuasive message functions conjointly with the personality variable approval-dependence, to produce differential effects on recipient attitude change. (Author)

This study was conducted to provide additional insight into the functioning of authority-based assertion by controlling to a large extent other relevant variables. This control made possible a test of the interaction of authority-based assertion with critical thinking ability. (Author)

A study testing the hypothesis that persuasion decreases as comprehension decreases in an oral communication situation. Raises serious questions about the relationship of comprehension to persuasion. (Author/JB)

A review of Language and Learning" (University of Miami Press), by James Britton, Reader in Education and Head of the Engligh Department at the University of London Institute of Education. (RY)