Investigated the relationship between sex role orientations and performance in interpersonal situations. Males and females in each of four sex role categories role-played situations requiring the appropriate expression of assertiveness. Androgynous subjects were most effective in rated skills components while undifferentiated subjects were highly…

The Gestalt experiment is applicable to sex therapy. Familiarity with modes and methods of experimenting permits the therapist's creativity to emerge. Applications of sexual metaphors and sex dysfunction as a nightmare are presented, using methods drawn from Gestalt dream work. The use of Gestalt experiments are illustrated in a client-therapist…

Fifteen learning disabled secondary students participated in resource room activities that stressed completing employment applications, looking for employment ads in newspapers, and role playing a job interview. Seventy percent of the class found gainful employment without assistance from outside sources. (CL)

A sociodrama technique based on a nonfiction account of a teacher's experiences with cultural retardation significantly increased the knowledge and empathy level of 25 classroom teachers toward mildly mentally retarded students. (CL)

Six retarded adults were taught job application and interview skills, including introducing oneself, filling out a standard job application form, answering questions, and asking questions. A combination of instructions, modeling, role playing, and positive and corrective feedback was used across a multiple baseline experimental design. (Author)

Outlines a project in which elementary or secondary students plan and produce an imaginary television program. The activity is intended both to educate students about television and to improve their language skills. (SJL)

Results indicated little or no correspondence between self-report scores and behavior in a contrived in vivo setting or between role play and behavior with a sample of college students. Assertion was enhanced in the role play condition, but not in the contrived in vivo condition. (JAC)

A unique theatrical presentation, "Miss Margarida's Way," reveals some interesting characteristics of its audience when it casts them back into a classroom situation. (LH)

The temporary swapping of roles between teacher educators and in-service teachers leads to an increase of professional understanding and to improved teacher preparation programs. (LH)

Emphasizes the importance of the telephone as a tool for reporters and discusses the training of student reporters in use of the telephone. Suggests role play, news stories based on the role play, critiques of the role play, and blind telephone interviews with persons selected at random from the telephone directory. (TJ)

Examines research generated by use of role-playing in counseling. This review is limited to studies assessing the direct use of role-playing within counselor training programs, and to studies that use role-playing in treating special client concerns. Incorporation of role-playing will increase the counselor's repertoire of techniques. (Author/BEF)

Investigates ways of developing self-confidence, self-esteem, and related dominance in counselor education. Shows that, of three conditions tried, a pre-practicum utilizing role playing had the best results. (RL)

The modern sports spectacular contains all the necessary elements of symbolic rite, and the public's behavior patterns during large-scale athletic events dramatically illustrate a ritualistic enactment of social and cultural power struggles via vicarious participation. (LH)

Describes how teachers turned the reality of the nuclear reactor incident at Three Mile Island into a learning experience for children by recreating the sequence of events through creative dramatics. (CM)

Describes a structured role-play session for a university library staff in the context of human relations training. The role play stimulated discussion and a greater awareness of communication barriers. (Author)