The daily rearrangement of a profoundly retarded seven-year-old boy's routine shower was found to be effective in eliminating his low-frequency feces smearing and coprophagic (eating of feces) behavior during the late afternoon/early evening part of the day. (Author/DLS)

The free play behavior of young children allows the opportunity to actively explore, investigate, and manipulate features of the adult world, and to assimilate the characteristics of novel aspects of the environment. (Author)

Presents an expanded model of counseling, which includes a stimulation phase, to provide for active counseling methods that affect client perceptual change. This actively involves the counselor and client in full exploration, culminating in discovery. Active stimulation leads to new awareness, enhanced by social influence to achieve new…

Reports on changing family composition, family interaction, and family relationships with the larger world as reflected in children's books. Covers eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. (RH)

When 180 children were given candy to share with others following one of three conditions for learning to share (demonstration, induction, and control groups), they showed increased sharing behaviors under the conditions of behavior example and induction, especially and significantly with induction. Sharing also increased as resources increased.…

Students in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are leaving the school to spend as much as a full semester learning about the adult world. (Author)

An argument is developed that suggests the authority of a work of literature lies in its transcendent themes having the power of illumination through the development of an increased understanding of one's own life and the lives of others. (Author/MLF)

Searches for connections between socialization and change. Suggests that the views of Marx and Weber are more helpful to understanding the origins of political socialization and change than the three explanations currently in the literature, that is, explanations based on uncommon people, dissident subcultures, or changing generations. (Author/JM)

It was hypothesized that because of differential social learning, females would report fear of spiders more frequently than males would but that males selected for equal self-report of fear would show greater autonomic responsivity than women to slides of spiders. (Editor)

Comments on the contingencies that operate (or can be postulated as operating) within the poverty environment to generate and perpetuate the "culture of poverty". (Author/RK)

Findings in this study suggest that sports participation generally has positive effects in terms of enhanced life satisfaction and that participants in youth sports tend to be less concerned with hedonistic pursuits. (MM)

This paper suggests that there is a tremendous need for additional research regarding black grandparent and childhood socialization. (Author)

Proposes an alternative to the present broadcasting system in the United States which would offer competition between representative viewpoints in entertainment, news, and public affairs. (DD)

Analyzes the effectiveness of the process of socialization within the public schools (known as private schools in the United States) and seeks to provoke a reappraisal of their function in Australia. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)