The task group report presented in this publication is one of a series prepared by eminent psychologists who have served as consultants in the U.S. Office of Education-sponsored grant study to conduct a Critical Appraisal of the Personality-Emotions-Motivation Domain. In order to achieve the goal of identifying important problems and areas for new…

An approach to the problem of providing social awareness experiences to undergraduate engineering students is provided in this paper. Specifically, this report lists some of the developments surrounding the inception of a social fraternities and sororities program at the University of Missouri-Rolla and events leading to these organizations doing…

A teaching strategy designed to help elementary students conceptualize about peace as a process of conflict resolution is described. The Baboon Troop and Netsilik Eskimo materials of "Man: A Course of Study" provide the course content in which the students learn that cooperation is the most important ingredient in group survival.…

An experiment designed to study the relationship between moral behavior and level of moral development is described. Subjects in the experiment were faced with the choice of either remaining uninvolved observers or intervening to help another student. Their choice was affected by the presence of an authority figure which discouraged any…

A suggested approach, termed value analysis, to studying the cost effectiveness of alternative plans for vocational-technical facilities presents a series of cost diagrams and decision matrices, with explication. The diagrammed steps are: (1) Value-Analysis Cost Schedule, representing a hypothetical facility being planned and showing estimated…

The objective of this study was to contribute a quantitative aspect to the Social Responsibility Theory of the Press which will make possible explanation and prediction of relationships between key elements of society and news-opinion media. The 31 tenets of the Social Responsibility Theory were isolated and categorized. Using these tenets, an…

The basic premise in the study of the mass media and media credibility was that the medium is a major factor in the determination of the credibility of information by receivers. Relationships between media credibility and sociolinguistic theory were explored, and the factor analysis was used to organize patterns of perception of media credibility…

In this guide for parents the process of children's growth is emphasized in discussions of values, permissiveness, independence, honesty, judgements, self-image, and discipline. Chapter titles are: (1) Anxiety About Child Rearing, (2) Valuing, (3) A Process Orientation, (4) The Value of Mistakes, (5) A Way of Looking at Things, (6) Reopening…

Presenting testimony from various sources, this report describes growing resentment in the American Indian community of Anglo media misinterpretation and exploitation of Indian culture and Indian people. The full text of the Navajo Nation's plan for a Navajo Communications Board (established by the Advisory Committee of the Navajo Tribal Council)…

The Continuing Conference for the Liberal Arts was organized to test the thesis that interdisciplinary studies involving the basic arts and sciences can be structured in a way to provide superior preparation for immediate entry into careers not always associated with undergraduate education. The programs of Augustana College, Denison University,…

This paper discusses the limitations of manpower planning activity as a source of policy criteria and suggests some directions for improving the state of the art. Sections I and II of the paper begin with a general discussion of the conceptual and institutional requisites of manpower planning in policy analysis and formulation. Section III extends…

The document presents teacher developed ideas for helping students gain skills in the process of decision making through individual and/or group activities. Individual activities are: (1) your own values, (2) case studies on honesty, (3) skills in helping others understand you as a person, (4) anxiety about future or conflict with parental wishes…

This article contains a critical analysis of agenda-setting theory and research. In choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff, and broadcasters play an important part in shaping political reality. Readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news…

The purpose of this essay was to propose a new explanation of collective behavior and to hypothesize the role of communication in this process. Unlike previous theories, which rely on a group effect, this explanation is based on the behavior of individual members of the collectivity. Using the experimental finding of the "risky shift,"…

The nuclear family as a vital support system is being undermined by a wide variety of direct and indirect factors. These factors include rapid technological advances, changes in socially accepted child-rearing techniques, changes in moral values, changes in acceptable sexual practices, effects of an improved educational system, effects of the…