Forty middle-class mothers and their 12-month-old infants participated in an examination of the extent to which infant sociability and home experiences were correlated with cognitive capacity. (JMB)

Traces links among social structure, feeling rules, the individual's management of emotion, and emotive experience in order to determine why the emotive experience of normal adults in daily life is as orderly as it is. (Author/KC)

The author discusses other writings on effective college teaching and then presents his list of necessary characteristics for the effective teacher, stressing the interpersonal dimension of the teaching-learning situation. (MF)

In a study to determine whether the social competence of 647 institutionalized mentally retarded persons was related to participation in educational programs and in drug treatment programs, Ss were rated in terms of social maturity, IQ, and retardation classification. (CL)

The prevalence of severe impairments of social interaction, language abnormalities, and repetitive stereotyped behaviors was investigated in a group of 132 children under 15 years old, consisting of a socially impaired group (more than half of whom were severely retarded) and a comparison group of sociable severely mentally retarded. Author/DLS)

Reports on a study which examined the effectiveness of role-playing as a method of improving peer relationships. Subjects were students in grades 3 to 5. (CM)

A brief historical account of the initiation and development of the Group Dynamics Laboratory Class at Indiana State University is presented, with the intent of helping other teachers evaluate their own laboratory offerings, or aiding the reader in initiating a similar course in his or her own institution. (MB)

The principal described here does not exist. His character and his situation were developed by the author in order to illustrate some techniques for improving interpersonal relations in the school. (Editor/RK)

Evaluates a training program to determine if it improved interpersonal skills of managers, how long the effects of the training could be expected to last, and if employees of the trained managers could perceive changes in their managers' overall behavior. (Author/RK)

The 1975 Texas Statewide Employer Survey showed the major reasons for rejecting applicants and terminating employees to be in the area of work adjustment rather than technical skills. Development of these work-related social skills may be incorporated into existing programs or offered in special courses. (MF)

Undergraduate females (N=80) attempted to resolve personal anger conflicts by participating in short counseling-analogue sessions. Each subject used one of four procedures: role play, discharge, intellectual analysis, or control. On the whole, role play was the most effective procedure for reducing anger, hostile attitudes, and behavioral…

Fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children (N=114) were tested on self- and other-concepts. Children who gave evidence of both high self- and high others-concepts showed a significantly better personality adjustment than children in other groups. (Author)

Social Competence Training (SCT) is a composite, voluntary program of instruction and group treatment initiated at the California Correctional Institution to work out individual problems of inmates as well as moderating the overall social situation at the institution. (Author)

Asserts that "from among the multitude of independent variables that affect adjustment, several rather important clusters are relatively closer to existing knowledge and competence bases of mental health people. We need to ask which these are, and how their manipulation might promote more positive mental health outcomes." (Author/JM)