People are generally reluctant to transmit bad news to others. To examine this reluctance, college students (N=96) were randomly assigned to two conditions (i.e., assistant or confederate subject). Assistants administered a "psychological inventory" to confederate subjects. Student assistants believed the subject had previously taken one inventory…

Investigation of the effects of a series of treatment conditions upon some social behaviors may require observation of subjects mutually paired, in round-robin fashion. Data arising from such experiments are difficult to analyze, partly because they do not fit neatly into standard designs. A model is presented. (Author/BJG)

Suggests that television's effects on children are mediated by age-related differences in comprehension and evaluation. (MH)

Suggests an alternative design for formulating research questions and stresses the need to relate actual messages to specific outcomes rather than to assumptions about possible outcomes. (MH)

Author looked at the complex questions raised by the idea of a register of incidents of child abuse. (Editor/RK)

Responses to behaviors dealing with sex, drugs, alcohol, and theft were measured in an interview, holding constant the characteristics of the actor, but varying one characteristic of the act. (Author/NQ)

This paper presents a model for turn-taking in conversation that is locally managed, party-administered, interactionally controlled, and sensitive to recipient design. Several general consequences of the model are explicated. (CK)

While the term "intersubjectivity" has become widely used to mean something like "shared experience," it is, paradoxically, poorly understood. This review of the theoretical foundations of intersubjectivity argues that the problem lies in the developmental starting points of the theories. Either subjective experiences are seen…

To examine children's patterns of social interaction in group care, the activities and verbal behavior of 50 preschool children attending 5 Japanese day care centers in metropolitan Tokyo were observed and recorded during a total of 20 minutes of free play for each child. Participants were equally dispersed across five age categories each…

The present study explored the development of intense positive emotion induction procedures through the use of propositional sets. Lang's bio-informational model of mental imagery suggested that by combining stimulus propositions with response propositions in the induction procedure children would experience more powerful emotions than under…

In order to assess the potential role of imitation in early socialization, a study was conducted to investigate the content and development of children's imitative behavior in the home. Data consisted of incidents of immediate and deferred imitation collected over a 4- to 8-month period by mothers trained in observational recording. Subjects…

Research on family interaction has characterized family style on centripetal and centrifugal dimensions, representing opposing natures with their own continua. Centripetal forces produce binding, or a prolonged process of separation of parent and child; centrifugal forces preciptate expelling, or hastened separation and premature autonomy. To…

This study examined the stability of the child's behavior and psychosocial environment during the early school years. Longitudinal correlations of psychosocial environment indices with teacher ratings of child school behavior were also investigated. The original subjects of this longitudinal study consisted of 321 low-income mothers recruited from…

A course on white collar crime suitable for use in a small or moderately sized undergraduate sociology program is outlined. The development, format, and evaluation of the course are discussed in separate sections. The program is seen as developing out of a need to identify and foster awareness of a wide range of illegal and deviant activities…