A model of singleness in later life was developed to show how the social context may influence the personal and social resources of older, unmarried persons. Role transitions of the unmarried over the life course, finances, health, and social relationships of older singles are discussed with implications for practice and future research.…

Relates gender roles, role loss, and memory. Proposes that, without meaningful present roles to frame one's past experience, memory is likely to be characterized by a high frequency of nonintegrated, relatively meaningless relationships, in turn leading to a narrowing of horizons and inability to take the role of the other. (Author/ABB)

A classroom exercise that involves college students in portraying individuals studied in a history of psychology course is described. Working in teams, students develop a presentation allowing figures from different time periods to discuss and debate psychological issues. Students also prepare a bibliography and position summary of the individual…

Interrelationship of different categories of prosocial behavior different assessment procedures, and role of empathy and perspective taking were examined. Prosocial behavior in preschool children was assessed using three different approaches: naturalistic observation, structured measures, and teacher ratings. Results indicated preschool children…

Discusses difficulties in measuring interpersonal understanding, ego development and moral development. Compares Loevinger's and Selman's theories, showing how cognitive and sociocognitive structures may be used to reconstruct many ego development test items. (NH)

Humorously discusses the recent practice of rewriting plays so that the leading roles can be played by members of either sex and considers what might happen if poets and novelists follow suit. (EL)

Discusses the exhortation to teachers--"Know your students"--as requiring not only knowing that students feel certain ways but also knowing what it is like to have such feelings. Five distinct senses of "feeling the same way" are identified and discussed in pedagogical contexts. (Author/RDN)

Describes the early stages of empathy in counseling--emotional reaction, role-taking, and cognitive suspension--from the perspective of the aesthetic/film literatures. Describes how audience emotional states are created and explains how counselor educators and supervisors can use this information to help counselors increase their empathic…

Twenty male and twenty female third graders expected boy characters to retaliate more strongly than girl characters when intervening in an attack upon a friend and girl characters to retaliate more strongly than boys when being verbally or physically assaulted. (Author/KH)

Professionals often neglect problem-setting because of a preoccupation with problem-solving. Missions, goals, and objectives are products of problem-setting that are important to the process of professionalization. Professionals should become more reflective and reflexive in their approach to problem-setting. (Author/DF)

Five experiments were run to assess imagery performance and perspective-taking in children ages 6 to 11. In Experiments 1-3, children anticipated results of rotating an object. Experiment 4 assessed the same children on a version of the traditional perspective-taking task. Experiment 5 studied children who took extreme approaches. (SB)

Educators and community members talk increasingly of school-community partnerships but have different purposes and arrangements in mind. Educators tend to think of communities in terms of resources for schools, whereas community members tend to see partnerships also as means of influencing their children's education and benefiting the community.…

Reviews some recent studies of visual perspective taking which preserve many features of the Piagetian three-mountain task, discusses the generality and particularity of children's perspective-taking abilities, and briefly comments on the relationship between perspective taking and social experience. (RH)

This paper explores some of the reasons why global perspectives education has not found its way into the school curriculum. Also it offers some strategies for implementing global perspectives education in school programs. (BW)

Concludes that there are reliable relationships between altruism and perceptual, social, and moral perspective taking. Results concerning the relationship between empathy and altruism are nonsignificant overall, but it is suggested that a reliable association between empathy and altruism develops over time and is found in adults. (Author/RH)