This study examined children's responses to several questions about their use of display rules for expressing emotions--i.e., about the circumstances in which they would (1) mask or hide their feelings, (2) dissimulate their feelings through substituting another affective expression, and (3) express their feelings. A total of 60 children, aged 6,…

This is one of a series that is a collection of translations from the extensive Soviet literature of the past 25 years on research in the psychology of mathematics instruction. It also includes works on methods of teaching mathematics directly influenced by the psychological research. Selected papers and books considered to be of value to the…

The Social Sciences have a conceptual framework that is outside of cultural pluralism and hence, beyond a respect for the dignity of all individuals. There is a continual need to balance the control function of science with its function as a potential agent of social change. However, the scientific method is a controlled inquiry based on a…

A study was conducted to determine the degree to which the psychological variable of self-acceptance and the communication variable of self-disclosure served as predictors of the degree of intimacy in a marital relationship. The study involved 72 couples who had been married from 2 to 42 years. The subjects completed four written scales and…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COLLECT INFORMATION CONCERNING THE STATUS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH RELATED TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, ORGANIZE THE INFORMATION TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE AND STIMULATION FOR DEVELOPING AND EXECUTING RESEARCH TO FILL CURRENT GAPS, COOPERATE WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES IN DEVELOPING RESEARCH PROPOSALS, AND PROPOSE AND DEVELOP…

SINCE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN BEING, IT IS OFTEN FOUND THAT IMPAIRMENTS ARE FREQUENT CAUSES OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS. ON THE OTHER HAND, A GOOD GUIDE TO BEGINNING HELP INVOLVES PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION TO ESTIMATE INTELLIGENCE. ALSO A TEST OF HEARING SHOULD BE GIVEN AS WELL AS A…

A CONCEPT OF A TENSION SYSTEM IN A WORKING-MEMORY PLAN WAS STUDIED TO IMPLEMENT A COUNSELING APPROACH EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING THE RATE OF HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS. COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (178) WERE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS EQUATED ON AGE, CLASS, SEX, AND INTELLIGENCE. ALL SUBJECTS WERE INDIVIDUALLY…

This paper focuses on theoretical and methodological problems in social psychological research on the culturally different. Major problems in using experimental approaches are discussed: (1) the reactive nature of the experiment; (2) selection bias; (3) experimenter bias; and (4) value and ethical problems. The field experiment and combined field…

The project described was conducted to study how young children proceed to the acquisition of mastery in making films, how teaching technique is related to these forms of mastery, and what perceptual, cognitive, and affective changes occur in children as a result of these experiences. The development of a methodology for the study and problems…

The hypothesis that the presence of males inhibits the emergence of women as leaders and that this phenomenon is unrelated to differences in dominance, but rather to sex role expectations, was tested. Thirty women attending a woman's college were paired with both male and female peers, whom they did not know, for an experimental task in which one…

Two kinds of memory organization are distinguished: segregrated versus integrated. In segregated memory organizations, related learned propositions have separate memory representations. In integrated memory organizations, memory representations of related propositions share common subrepresentations. Segregated memory organizations facilitate…

When do we accept another's opinion regarding the characteristics or beliefs of a target person, and when do we reject that opinion? Different sorts of information may need to be assimilated by the perceiver. When does one type of information take priority over the other? A central focus of attribution research has been on the informational value…

The Canadian Commission on Human Relations Training sponsored a conference in Toronto in April 1968 to focus on six major concerns of Canadian trainers--trainer development, communication, research, theory and design (of training), public acceptance, and participant satisfaction. In preparation for this conference, it was found that collected…

This thesis describes an experimental study of the "motive to avoid success," as described by Matina Horner (1968), using sex, age, and sex of cues as independent variables. School-aged subjects (5th, 8th, 11th grade and college students) wrote stories in response to one of two written thematic apperceptive cues. The dependent measure was the…

This study tests basic assumptions of the justice judgment model which assumes there are alternative justice norms whose relative importance depends on the social situation. The subjects (120 men and 120 women) received information about the nutritional neediness and school performance of four children, and then donated money to them. Many…