This extensive article covers three aspects of the premarital dyad: courtship development, dating behavior and satisfactions, and mate selection. It appears that the interplay of needs and roles seems to be a major part of discussion relevant to mate selection. (Author/CJ)

Studies of family interaction in Zinacantan, Mexico and Cambridge, Massachusetts, are used to test four hypotheses: (1) affection elicits affection; (2) dominance elicits submission; (3) all group members will exhibit the same degree of affection, and (4) all group members will exhibit the same degree of dominance submission. (Author)

Tests the effects of (1) specialization versus project team organization and (2) individual- versus group-level feedback. Finds that groups organized into project teams tended to express higher levels of satisfaction and groups given individual-level feedback tended to construct higher scoring words. (MB)

Discussed is the proposition that as a nosological entity, behavioral symptoms in the first year of life are not psychiatric diseases. (CB)

Educators, by making aspects of school other than academic achievement desirable, can motivate children to achieve in diverse areas. We need not, and we must not, limit the feeling of school success to the top two-percenters in academic accomplishment. (Author)