Records an interview with Joel Goodman, founder and director of the HUMOR Project at Saratoga Institute. Offers counselors suggestions for using humor as a tool in counseling situations. (ABB)

In three experiments boys and girls, aged 7 to 9, were played humorous recordings through headphones in dyadic and solitary conditions to investigate companion influences on humorous laughter and smiling. Interaction data discussed. (JH)

In keeping with a model of intelligence that identifies at least 12 intelligence "talents," formal and informal intelligence or talent assessments have been developed. This paper presents some of these informal instruments that can be used to assess convergent and divergent forms of intelligence. These nontraditional instruments have been designed…

A classroom teacher's whimsical approach to what the Black Revolution hath wrought." (Author)

This satirical essay proposes an institution of higher learning that would prepare students to become swimmers" and swimming instructors. Curriculum, teaching methods, student selection and evaluation are modelled on certain contemporary teacher-training institutes. (PD)

Three papers facetiously dealing with college administration. These papers are part of a book by the above named author, a professor at New York University. (MF)

So that children will understand the habits, attitudes and mores of educational researchers, author paraphrases and quotes from B. F. Beebe's African Elephants. (RY)

Humorous essay recounts a mythical relevant curriculum. (MF)

Three incidents which elucidate the limits of laughter are described. Most persons enjoy humor as comic relief, but when humor strikes a blow at something they hold dear, they find it very hard to laugh. People are upset by an irreverent attitude toward things they hold in esteem. (RM)

This humorous sketch contains speculation about what teacher education programs might be like if they were conducted in heaven. (PP)

Presents a humorous review of educational jargon. (RL)

Laughing and smiling responses of 12 moderately retarded adolescents were significantly correlated with mental age and with the teacher's prediction of student responses in both situations, with the latter measure providing ecological validity to the findings. (Author)

Investigates three kinds of disparagement variables that had previously been shown to affect funniness in order to explore their effect on resolution as well as funniness. It was predicted that the disparagement variables would affect rated resolution in a way that paralleled their effect on rated funniness. (Author/RH)