Improved awareness of social behavior and increased social observation skills are two contributions of video tape use. Basic video tape equipment may be applied to analyzation of everyday behavior, participant observor training and courses relying on group activities. Suggestions on getting started and introductory manuals are reviewed. (KM)

A group of elementary children were tested for conformity to peers. Results showing the conformity decreased between ages 8 and 11 years and increased to age 13 are discussed in terms of descrepancies among earlier investigations in this area. (Author/KM)

Describes some common patterns of animal spatial behavior, and discusses spatial relationships that can be observed as an important component of human social behavior. Reports the results of a study relating to the interpersonal distances of people in bus queues in Britain. (JR)

The effects of observing helping and selfish-exploiting models were investigated in three social contexts where normative expectations for helping were present in differing degrees. (Author/KM)

An article describing new forms life styles are taking as a result of changes in society. (JC)

Lecture given at the conference on Gegenwartssprache and Gesellschaft'' (Contemporary Language and Society) at the Evangelische Akademie'' in Loccum, West Germany, February 26-28, 1971. (RS)

Delegates to a community leadership laboratory found their skills in organizing, forming coalitions and perceiving power relationships'' tested when the staff became the unresponsive power group''. (Author/SP)

This transcript is taken from an interview at the University of Connecticut between the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, and two members of the Gay Liberation Movement at the university. The conversation focused on the presence of Gay Liberation on campus. (Author)

Conformity to peer expectations appears to be crucial in explaining premarital sexual activity and attitudes. Moreover, College students conform not only to their friends, but also to their age-mates in general. (Author)

Beginning with preschool years, children compare the rewards they receive with those received by other children. These comparisons have powerful effects upon subsequent self-rewarding behavior, evaluation of rewards and the sharing of rewards with others. A key process in these developments, social comparison," is reviewed in this article.…

Within a racially discriminatory context, data were presented to support the proposition that a significant factor in determining agreement between overt and verbal behavior is the degree of correspondence between the situation depicted in the question, to which the subject verbally responds, and the situation in which the subject performs the…

Multitreatment and multiple baseline designs were used to determine the relative influences of task demands, vibration, and a brief overcorrection procedure on two topographies of self-injurious behavior in one 16-year-old severely retarded male. (Author/SEW)