Studies the impact of children's verbal style, age, and sex on social perception and concludes that dialect functions as an important cue in the judgment of others and results in linguistic stereotyping early in children's social development. (MH)

Discusses two studies which indicate that student audiences rated speeches of their peers significantly higher if they thought that the speakers had completed a course in public speaking. (MH)

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Investigates the construct of locus of control as predictive of goal-directed behavior in a group of Equal Opportunity Committee (EEO) employees. (Author/RK)

This study examined research on children's block play, using content analysis to review 75 documents that focused on such play. Each document was coded by type (empirical study or nonempirical article) and by 15 topics and 76 subtopics grouped into 4 broad categories: (1) environment/ecology; (2) block play and the school curriculum; (3) block…

This study was designed to help determine whether there are gender differences in the psychological and moral development of traditional-age college students. Two hundred thirty-three first-year and graduating students were given the Student Development Task and Lifestyle Inventory (SDTLI) and the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to determine whether…

This paper addresses the need for gay and lesbian relationship research and theory and some of the directions such research and theory might take. It suggests academic research into gay and lesbian relationships is needed because these relationships are a fact of modern life and are different from heterosexual relationships, and because such…

Four evaluation techniques, illustrated with examples in the field, can be used to discover how people interact with their environment, what they like and dislike about it, and what kind of environment they would prefer. (Author/MF)

The present study endeavored to ascertain responsesof children to some of the forms of behavior previously assessed by adults and considered to be within the range of children's experience. (Author)

Article evaluated the creative abilities of men and women with specific accent of sex as a matter of decisive influence on creative output. (RK)