Evidence indicates many smokers use cigarettes as an important aid to coping and as an ego-enhancer. Paper read at the American Cancer Society Conference on Smoking in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

Contends that ultimate control of behavior does not yet rest with individual and that learning theory may have to turn outward toward society before it can turn inward toward individual. (DS)

Reports on four studies conducted to test validity of self-report data from smokers on what type smoking they follow. Two studies cover positive or negative effect stimuli; two deal with effect of smoking deprivation on the smokers. (DS)

Article shows four basic approaches for using discipline and nine strategies for preventing discipline problems in the classroom. (RK)

Reports investigation of modal personality of a colonial people evolving toward independence--Phase I of a longitudinal study of behavioral adaptation to sociopolitical change. Comparative data from Thailand and the Philippines are also presented. (RJ)

Modeling was shown to be a more rapid modification procedure than was shaping, and the interaction levels produced through modeling, with or without the addition of shaping, were more stable over time. (Authors)

Changes in parental behavior were investigated in Cologne, West Germany, in 1960 and 1968, and upstate New York in 1960-1962 and 1965 using ratings made by 6th grade school children. The hypothesized changes were confirmed for 7 parental behaviors. (Author/WY)

To assist professionals fully aware of the content of family life education in organizing change, a planned sequence is suggested. The method is focused on process, and developed cooperatively with recipients or clients. (Author)

The study investigated the effect of a videotape instructional routine in combination with contingent application of token reinforcements on attendant child interaction (nine female attendants and five children) in a residential facility for developmentally retarded children. (Author/GW)

The question-asking behavior of disadvantaged Mexican-American second-grade children was found readily modifiable using an adult model offering contingent praise. (Authors)