A total of 93 preschool children viewed either aggressive, prosocial, or neutral programs for four weeks. Observations of behavior before and after the viewing indicated that aggressive children showed increased aggression after watching aggressive programs; prosocial programs increased prosocial behavior. (ST)

Forty-eight 8-year-old and forty eight 12-year-old Dutch boys evaluated a story of aggression. Both groups judged the act more negatively when the agressor's intentions were bad, but the younger boys relied more on the consequences to determine their judgment than did the older boys. (Author/KM)

Students rated as aggressive-disruptive by teachers were found to achieve at significantly lower levels after 5 years than socially approved students. (KW)

The accumulated evidence of this paper suggests that sex aggression is largely the consequence of a particular type of socialization coupled with appropriate situational factors. These males tend to be generally aggressive; they show a strong tendency to deny love feeling for their mothers; their peers tend to stress sexual activity. (Author/BY)

Utilizing 182 subjects, this study determined the concurrent validity between the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) index of anxiety and scores on the IPAT Anxiety Scale. The IPAT and the AVA index of anxiety seem essentially to measure the same construct of basic anxiety. (Author/PN)

Psychoanalytic theory predicts that humor preference is a derivative of unresolved childhood conflicts. Analyzed students' (N=104) Rorschach protocols to yield measures of preoedipal fixation. Students ranked jokes from most to least funny. Results showed that the ranking of jokes was a function of the fixation measures for women only. (Author/RC)

The most widely used limits reported by psychoanalytic, nondirective and other therapists pertained to protection of playroom equipment, safety and health, and physical attacks upon the therapist; least used limits were those associated with symbolic expression. Results closely approximate the 1961 and 1963 investigations of Ginott and Lebo.…

Participants in assertiveness training groups who rated their degree of interest in improving their assertive skills in 26 areas indicated that being assertive when confronted with another's aggression was the highest priority, whereas saying no in various situations assumed a much lower priority. (Author)

Evidence from cross cultural studies and observational studies are provided to support the contentions that males are more aggressive than females and that this sex difference is evident as early as the preschool years. (Author/MP)