Reviews "Black Life in Corporate America" (Davis and Watson), "Women at Work: A Psychologist's Secrets to Getting Ahead in Business" (Senter), and "The Black Manager, Making It in the Corporate World" (Dickens and Dickens). All three books address general issues confronting Black/female managers, and two offer…

This study compares the effects of two teacher training programs designed to emphasize one of two forms of behavior modification in teaching economics to fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade pupils. (DMT)

This laboratory study of self-monitoring effects examined hypotheses that the direction of reactive effects is a function of the perceived value of the target behavior and that neither the behavior's value nor self-monitoring alone is sufficient to produce significant effects but that both are necessary. (Author)

Presented is a case study of a 19-year-old female with hydraencephaly (a condition marked by excessive accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles) who was conditioned on three occasions to increase eyeblink rate with tactile reinforcement. (CL)

Describes the stages of change in attitudes and behaviors necessary for new ideas or procedures to become part of a faculty development program. (JY)

This booklet presents five papers that address the issue of whether 360-degree feedback (in which a manager or executive receives feedback on how bosses, peers, and direct reports see him or her) should be used only for development, or whether 360-degree feedback (also known as multi-rater feedback) should be used for administrative purposes such…

This paper states that programs to raise self esteem have not proved effective, and an increase in self esteem has not been shown to improve academic achievement. It suggests that the answer lies in promoting the notion of "other-esteem," which is the respect, acceptance, caring, valuing, promotion, and forgiving of others without reservation. It…

This working paper examines behavior change as a key element in creating an enabling environment to sustain educational reform in Indonesia. It recommends elevating the importance of a formalized behavior change framework and methodology so that future plans for educational reform in Indonesia will include social marketing as a planned…

The author reviews the basic principles and theory which underly directive teaching: defining behavior, measuring and analyzing behavior, and manipulating environmental variables. (HMD)

Five steps in directive teaching are delineated: a) select target children; b) identify target behaviors; c) identify reinforcing events; d) establish plan, including instructional goals, reinforcement, and reward schedule; and e) implement and evaluate. (HMD)

Microcounseling and media therapy are video methods of teaching single behavioral skills of counseling and communication to a wide variety of populations ranging from children to school counselors to psychiatric patients. The history and method of these techniques are detailed and recent research on the effectiveness is summarized. (Author)

Project Re-ED, initiated in Nashville, Tennessee, is a well-established, carefully tested model for intervening in the lives of children whose development has been interrupted by serious learning and behavior problems. Involves an eclectic, pragmatic approach combining features of therapy and behavior modification and centering on the social…

Discusses how the behavior contract becomes a method of giving the student specific "things to do" while avoiding the process of nagging him to do something. (Author)

This article reports a project in which students in a college level adjustment course were taught to apply a model of behavior change in order to gain greater control over their own behavior. Pilot data suggest that students found the experience worthwhile, that many of them learned to make substantial changes in their behavior. (Author)

This article discusses several principles derived from learning theory which aid in understanding the use and abuse of drugs and illustrates their role in behavioral group counseling, a promising new strategy for drug abuse prevention. (JC)