The purpose of this experiment was to see if there would be a conditioning of evaluative meaning effect when a procedure was used that reduced contingency and demand awareness. The results lend support to Staats' conditioning of meaning and attitude theory. (Author/KM)

Nursery school children were shown films to vicariously condition either fear or positive emotional responses in them. The children showed a higher rate of responding to the positive stimulus. (Author/KM)

A system is described whereby sheltered workshop behaviors are transduced automatically by tools wired to operant programing and recording apparatus. (Author)

In this study, both the semantic and systematic desensitization methods were found to be significantly more effective than the implosive therapy and the control treatments in the modification of phobic behavior among the college student population. (Author)

Describes ways to reduce energy consumption in transportation, space heating, and air conditioning. Greater efficiency for energy use from an engineering point of view is possible in present circumstances. (PS)

Purpose of the present research was to determine whether certain Pavlovian conditioning phenomena occur in a simple probability learning situation. (Authors)

Results strongly question the causal relationship often postulated between verbal operant conditioning and the awareness of contingency. (Authors)

The purpose of this paper is to affirm the role of preceding stimuli in teaching in a manner consistent with operant psychology and to speculate upon causes for neglect by modern operant psychologists if not by teachers. (Author)

Operant and imitative techniques were used in programing generalization of verbal behavior in a child. (Author)

Results support the hypothesized relationship between meaning and phobia. Semantic desensitization techniques based on counter conditioning of meaning were significantly effective in altering the semantic value of the word from unpleasantness to neutrality. (Author)

A consulting engineer describes the characteristics of four common total environmental control systems. (MF)

The purpose of this study was to investigate some of the ways in which self-esteem might be enchanced. (Editor)

Clarifies behavior change objectives of marital partners, suggesting a four step treatment approach culminating in an exchange of positive responses on a reciprocal basis. Summarizes treatment of four couples complaining of low rate conversational and sexual behavior, stressing use of a token system as prosthesis facilitating transition to…