An in-depth interview format was used to explore gender and age differences in friendship patterns. Groups described friendship in superficially similar ways. However, in the taped interviews, large gender differences appeared that followed conceptually along instrumental/expressive dimensions. Age differences also appeared. (Author/ABB)

Employed contextual analysis to examine the meaning of touches reported in daily interaction. Found 18 categories of meanings of touch such as support, appreciation, inclusion, greeting, departure, attention-getting, etc. Discusses results in terms of the nature of tactile communication, comparing results with past research. (PD)

Considers the phenomenon of a single utterance having different illocutions at the same time, depending on the relationship between the speaker and different hearers and the differing amounts of shared knowledge among the conversation's participants. (MSE)

Persons (N=78) between the ages of 18 and 30 completed a questionnaire on how intra-familial conflict was resolved in their family between: mother and father; mother and self; father and self; and self; and self and each sibling. Verbal aggression was utilized as a conflict resolution mode in nearly all familites. (Author)

Analyzes the relationship between empathy level and occupation and the differences between empathy level and content as categorized into Herzberg's motivators and hygiene factors. (MH)

This paper reports the results of an empirical examination of the effects of personal experience and social interaction on individual knowledge and performance in a specific decision making task context. The study revealed a differential effect of increased experience on the quality of participants decisions. In particular, increased experience…

The complex relationship of anxiety and its overt manifestations in social situations and the role of an autonomic perception subject characteristic in determining that relationship are briefly discussed. (Author)

In an initial test of a theory of increasing content, forty experimental dyads ranging from compatibility to incompatibility were composed and studied. The three channels are identified as the motivation, delivery, and information channels. A linear relationship between intra-group compatibility and a set of five dependent variables was…

This paper recommends a self-contained instructional system which will produce consistent results. The developmental process of the system is described through steps of performance and concept analysis, criterion testing, the designing of a prototype package and validation testing. (JA)

This paper reports a methodological study in which live communication between young married spouses was compared with a self-reporting of their communication processes. Results support the use of observational research as a methodological tool in the search for an understanding of marital communication patterns. (Author)

Both academic and disruptive behavior in a classroom for children with behavioral problems were monitored under two different procedures for administering token reinforcement. Control may be more efficiently achieved by reinforcing academic behaviors incompatible with disruptive behaviors. (Author/JB)

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)