Demonstrates through a case study and a participant observation study that siblings interact about television in such a way that the form and content of their talk creates a learning context. Concludes that, despite concerns about "zombie" viewers, children are not passive, unresponsive recipients of television. (PD)

Discusses assignments in discourse analysis and students' recurring methodological errors. (PD)

Describes a method of measuring counselor response style in marriage counseling. Counseling students (N=11) made two audiotapes of counseling sessions before and after a course in counseling relationships. Results showed an increase in responses to couple concerns and a decrease in response to individual concerns after the course. (JAC)

Argues for the use of adult-adult interactions between teacher and student (as opposed to parent-child interactions) to help stimulate the revision of student papers. (HOD)

Examined factors that influenced the concordant perceptions of 28 distressed and 28 nondistressed husbands and wives and trained coders who observed samples of their own and another couple's problem solving. Correlational analyses suggested greater insider-outsider perceptual agreement for distressed than nondistressed couples and for negative…

Independent groups of seven-year-old subjects listened to humor on headphones, either with a nonlistening companion (audience) or with a companion who also listened (coactor). In coaction sessions, children sitting closer engaged in more eye contact, laughter, and smiling. (Author)

The effects of several factors on willingness to take a counterattitudinal position in a forthcoming debate were investigated. Subjects were presented with the dilemma of either compromising their own position and thereby not forfeiting a competitive advantage in the debate or forfeiting a competitive advantage by not compromising their own…

The family value fugue incident appears to afflict a substantial proportion of families in this country and in Europe. A series of five incidents are presented and characteristics of these incidents as well as their effects are discussed. Suggestions for further investigation of the family value fugue incident are made. (Author)

The background and content of an agreement with the Veterans Administration is presented as a model for consideration by other institutions. (Author)

The relationships among sex of expressor, sex of judge, intensity of affect expressed, and the spontaneous attribution of emotionality were explored. (Editor)

To ascertain effects of supervised counselor experience on measures of dominance, graduate students (N=32) were given the dominance and self-acceptance scales of the California Psychological Inventory and the California Fascism Scale. Results implied a supervised counseling practicum effected more of an increase in participants' feelings of…

Investigates whether self-disclosure elicits anxiety and subsequent coping attempts in subjects who interact with a direct, open and disclosing communicator. Subjects were 40 male and 40 female college students. Results indicate direct and open communication does elicit some degree of anxiety in the listener. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of counselor trainees' reports of their philosophy of human nature and their interpersonal behavior in a variety of settings on their observed verbal behavior in a role-played initial counseling interview. (Author)

This study attempted to investigate relationships between pupil achievement and teacher verbal activity. Twelve teachers were recorded/observed teaching four lessons each to groups of 10 sixth-grade children. Results were not significant. (SL)