It is up to the governor to assume the leadership for providing the citizens with a vision of what a quality education can be. (Author/MLF)

Nonpatient couples, couples seeking sex therapy, and couples seeking marital therapy, were asked to report on who they felt should and who actually does assume responsibility in marital role areas. Discrepancy between role ideals and behavior was examined. Marital therapy patients were found to experience the most role strain. (Author)

Human communication is a complex process. For individuals from different regional, ethnic, or racial backgrounds, communication may be difficult. Focuses on some common ways individuals fail to communicate clearly and the significance of this failure for social work practice. (Author)

Encouragements and discouragements for achievement-related behavior were reported. Career women reported significantly more encouragement from teachers, family members (except parents), and significant others of the opposite sex. Career men reported more encouragement from parents; however, these differences were not significant. (Author)

Findings indicate that highly flexible self-disclosers evidence a heightened social perceptiveness. They also evidence significantly greater affective empathy and more accurate perceptions of facilitative responding than do less flexible disclosers. (Author)

Responses to a questionnaire pertaining to discrepancies between an individual's ideal and actual marital role behaviors and level of sexual satisfaction indicated lower levels of role strain in nonpatient couples. A higher level of role strain correlated with increased sexual dissatisfaction. (Author)

Reviews the work of Howard S. Becker who, in the 1950s, analyzed teaching as a service occupation and drew parallels with other such occupations in terms of worker-client relationships and authority structures. (SJL)

Examines the role of communication directors involved in internal communication activities in business organizations. Indicates that directors perform a variety of roles ranging from journalistic to advisory/support work. Proposes a functional role involved in determining major policies for communications systems. (JMF)

Examines the ability of adult observers to detect deception in children through nonverbal facial and body movement cues. Results indicate distinctly differing developmental trends for girls and boys, depending on whether the face or body was being rated. (JMF)

Localization responses to octave-band noises with center frequencies at 200, 400, 1000, 2000, 4000, and 10,000 Hz were obtained from infants 6, 12, and 18 months old in order to investigate infants' auditory sensitivity. (MP)

One of the most neglected aspects of group counseling and group psychotherapy research involves an investigation of the nature and development of the group members' interpersonal perceptions during the life of the group. In this study, an individual differences multidimensional scaling (INDSCAL) approach was used to study this question. (Author)

This paper first reviews three different theoretical constructs concerning the psychological significance of sex-role-related characteristics in personality functioning: sex role identity, androgyny, and sex role transcendence. A new conceptual analysis concerning sex-typing, sex role strain analysis, is presented. Implications of this analysis…

Investigates ways of developing self-confidence, self-esteem, and related dominance in counselor education. Shows that, of three conditions tried, a pre-practicum utilizing role playing had the best results. (RL)

Demonstrates that a representation of a figure through object reconstruction is prerequisite to recognizing the object figure from a collection of figures, which in turn is prerequisite to representing the object figure using a pencil-and-paper reproduction. (RL)