Personalizing and humanizing the educational process is a goal that is shared by teachers and counselors. Two procedures which improve human relations between teachers and students, and thereby facilitate the learning process, are discussed in this article. These two procedures are the C'' group and the DUSO program. (Author)

School systems in several European countries plan specifically for the moral education of students within the public school setting. (JB)

This study dealt with the question of white versus black superiority in learning, viewing such differences in sociocultural terms. (Author)

Do prior hedonic and excitational variations have influence on the appreciation of subsequently presented music? Implications for the manipulation of response to music and to other affect-producing communications through variations in prior stimulation are discussed. (Author/KM)

The third paper of a series on intellective factors in learning mathematics, critical reviews of research concerned with variables that influence mathematical ability are presented here. (Author/KM)

A series of three studies is presented, each building on the other to validate the utility of reinforcement value, an affective dimension of meaningfulness based on ratings of likability. (Authors)

Children who were forbidden use of an attractive toy were later tempted with attractive prizes to falsify scores. Subjects who complied with the initial severe threat showed less resistence to temptation than control subjects. (JB)

Color data from the Osgood et al. 23-culture semantic differential study of affective meanings reveal cross-cultural similarities in feelings about colors. The concept RED is affectively quite salient; BLACK and GREY are bad, and WHITE, BLUE, and GREEN are good; YELLOW, WHITE, and GREY are weak; RED and BLACK are strong. (RJ)

Studying short-term effects of three environmental variables in combination showed a three-way interaction, supporting the interpretation that environmental variables can often be better understood in terms of their complex arrangement with other variables. Need for study of behaviors occurring long after an individual leaves a particular…

Televised portrayals of cowboy legends are really legends of violence, not of fact or history. (JB)

Suggests that there is a personality type likely to distort information--the neurotic--and discusses implications for advertising. (RB)

Summary of Lasswell's eight categories of human values with suggestions and examples of how this framework of values can be effectively utilized by education to produce responsible and productive citizens. (JC)