Address given at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, September 1, 1969, in Washington D.C. Research was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Dental Research, and the Office of Naval Research. (DS)

Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 29, 1970. (DS)

No reliable IQ differences were found when the Stanford-Binet was administered to 100 4-year-old Negro children under two conditions of language (Standard English and Negro dialect) and two conditions of reinforcement (praise and candy). (Author/WY)

Shows a relationship between the proximity of two people and their degree of face-to-face orientation and discussed the results with regard to Argyle and Dean's idea of intimacy equilibrium. (RW)

The findings suggest that Ss who were instructed in a pretraining model to express feelings did so more accurately than either the group that saw a counselor in an initial interview or the control group. The pretraining design might be employed to teach clients to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in the counseling…

Maintains that "a communicator perceives a rhetorical situation in terms of a motive, and that an organic relationship exists between his perception and his response to that circumstance." (Author)

Reprints from: Claire Falk Etaugh, Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois 61606.

Research supported by United States Public Health Service Grant MH-12908. Portions of the study were presented to the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, 1967.

Nursery school children and kindergarteners served as listeners in five types of communicative conditions: adequate, message-dependent inadequate, situation-dependent inadequate, listener-dependent inadequate, and speaker-dependent inadequate. Results indicate that young children's appraisal skills as listeners in referential communications…

Differential attention of two-month-old infants to synthetically generated and naturally produced rising and falling intonation contours was studied, and it was learned that infants attended more to naturally produced rising contours and synthetically generated falling contours. Use of the infant-control auditory preference paradigm was also…

Data on teacher-initiated conversations with students revealed the average pattern was approximately two-thirds student interchange and one-third class interchange. Interchanges decreased as the day progressed. Junior high school teachers were more active in verbal interchange with students than elementary teachers were in another study. (MLF)

Studied directives which mothers and fathers addressed to their preschool children. Fathers produced more directives than mothers and tended to phrase them as imperatives. No differences were found in parental directives to girls and boys. Thus, children appear to learn to request action in sex-associated ways through parental modeling. (GC)

Based upon responses to questionnaires by 162 university married-housing couples, equity theory was used to explain the relations between affective self-disclosure and marital adjustment. Found that the greater discrepancy in partners' affective self-disclosure, the less was an individual's marital adjustment. (Author/RC)