The effects of an observer's presence on maternal interactive behavior were examined through observation of mother-child pairs under informed and uninformed conditions. Results indicate mothers played with their children more, were more positive in their verbal behavior, and structured their children's activities more during the informed than…

Results showed a significant interactive effect of lighting and distance on the communication of empathy. Requests for reprints should be sent to F. Dumont, McGill University, 3700 McTavish Street, Montreal, P.Q., H3A 1Y2. (Author)

This paper presents a case study of a major educational innovation introduced into a school at the time of pupil desegregation. It was found that the innovation was essentially a rite of intensification whereby Whites and Blacks established new interaction patterns within a unitary school system by reinforcing the customary relationships between…

An attempt to clear up current misunderstanding of the concept of attachment by defining and distinguishing the concepts of "attachment qua affective bond" and "attachment behaviors". (Author/ED)

Self-disclosure was examined in the present study under two situations and with varying expectancies and need for social approval. (Author)

Research supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH-8304.

The purpose of this study was to determine the joint effects of low inference variables of teacher enthusiasm and teacher structure (degree of personal organizational capability of a given teacher) on student achievement. Eighty-six undergraduate subjects were randomly placed into one of four treatment groups to view a videotaped presentation. The…

A review of the literature on reciprocal self-disclosure indicates that scholars have limited their investigations to one aspect of disclosure--intimacy--while recent research suggests that disclosure is a multidimensional phenomenon. A study was conducted to assess the possibility of reciprocation of intimacy, amount, and valence (positive or…

A model that depicts communication as a dynamic ongoing phenomenon is presented in this paper. The key elements of the described model are: environmental factors, actor/auditor, image, perception, messages, channels, intrapersonal feedback, and consensus of meaning. An axiomatic basis is provided for each variable to serve as rules of…

This paper proposes a general principle of topic resources as a key principle of conversation. The first section of the paper offers a discussion of the notion of cohesion as a condition in which interactants perceive that their utterances are related to one another and presents the "given-new" strategy (in which the interactants…

The behavior patterns of 6 handicapped children and 14 nonhandicapped children were recorded during participation in a model developmental-interactive based curriculum for preschool children. Interactions were recorded using the Coping Analysis Schedule for Educational Settings. Among findings were the following: the consistently high occurrence…

An intensive, naturalistic, observational study was conducted of a preschool class which integrated eight handicapped and five nonhandicapped children. An attempt was made to identify social and physical settings which maximized interaction among members of the two groups. Observations (N=2,306) of the social and play behaviors were recorded over…

TO HELP PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS DEVELOP TEACHING SKILLS, PAIRS OF CASES (RECORDS OF REAL TEACHING SITUATIONS) WHICH DEPICT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT APPROACHES TAKEN BY TEACHERS WITH A SIMILAR CLASSROOM PROBLEM ARE VERBALLY DESCRIBED. EACH PAIR OF CASES IS ANALYZED USING THE CATEGORIES OF THE VERBAL INTERACTION CATEGORY SYSTEM (VICS) WHICH MEASURES…

A PRINCIPAL'S INTERACTION PATTERN IN FACULTY MEETINGS, TESTED BY THE CRISPIN SYSTEM OF INTERACTION ANALYSIS WAS HYPOTHESIZED TO BE THE MAJOR CAUSE FOR INTERSCHOOL TEACHER ATTITUDE DIFFERENCES. THE AUTHORS FURTHER HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE MORE INDIRECT THE PRINCIPAL'S BEHAVIOR (WILLINGLY SHARES HIS AUTHORITY WITH TEACHERS), THE MORE SUPPORTIVE WILL BE…