This article sheds light on the larger ethical issues faced by professionals who intervene in the lives of children and focuses specifically on points raised by critics of the behavioral treatment of gender-disturbed boys. (Author/AM)

Physical exercise self-management techniques are discussed as valuable aids in producing changed behaviors. Since people tend to bring their attitudes in line with their behaviors, rather than vice versa, behavior change is seen to ultimately result in attitude change. (MJB)

Reviews the research on the use of behavioral self-control procedures with students in classroom settings. The use of behavioral self-control procedures appears promising with on-task and academic behaviors and inconclusive with disruptive behavior. (Author)

An evaluation method for measuring the attitudes of teachers engaged in their first year of teaching is outlined. (JD)

The present investigation was conducted to determine if stimulus overselectivity in 19 autistic children (5 to 12 years old) is changed as a function of repeated exposure to testing. (Author/SBH)

The author discusses conceptual differences among nonassertiveness, assertiveness, and aggression and presents suggestions for developing assertion skills in the nonsmoker. (MJB)

Research has generally found instruction effective in raising student cognitive levels, but only inconsistently effective in producing behavior change. The authors urge that health education programs be developed in a manner reflective of the supportive behavior change research. (MJB)

Male subjects (N=96), defensive externals, congruent externals, and internals, participated in a level of aspiration task under either "game" or "test" instructions. As predicted, congruent externals showed significantly more realistic striving behavior in the test condition. (Author)

Reviews the position taken by the Supreme Court in supporting corporal punishment, asserts that corporal punishment is demeaning, and lists alternative approaches to the control of students. (IRT)

Reviewed is research on the relationship between the treatment of autistic children and diagnostic and etiological variables. (SBH)

Reviews the present status of cognitive theories in social psychology and summarizes major findings in the domain of attitude change. (Author)

Discusses early attitudes toward the transistor and the resulting consequences of these attitudes. (SL)

Described is a procedure for the reduction of stuttering behavior by means of reality confrontations in structure verbal exchanges, which has been used by the author as treatment with over 200 adolescent stutterers. (Author/IM)

The article discussed the relationship between sex-role behaviors and assertiveness. It was concluded that assertive training is potentially valuable to students and educators alike in helping to modify some of the extreme behaviors associated with sex-role stereotypes and as such is beneficial in bringing about more adaptive forms of behavior in…