Describes recommended Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) regulations concerning the participation of institutionalized persons in behavioral research. (SL)

Discusses a study designed to explore children's television viewing patterns and their perceptions of the media, and offers an evaluation of television's impact on the young child's lifestyle. (MH)

In this study of the relationship between moral behavior, level of moral development, and motivation, moral behavior was assessed in an experimental situation in which it was necessary to violate the experimenter's authority to help someone; level of moral development was assessed by Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Scale, and motivation by a…

Discusses a study dealing with English, Northern Italian and Southern Italian encoders role-playing specific emotions and degrees of two dimensions of emotion, and presents evidence suggesting that for neither the English nor the Italians, do hand gestures and other bodily cues function as a major communication channel for emotion. Available from:…

Discusses a method for assessing attitudes using cartoons as projective devices and suggests that graphical humor might be used successfully in constructing alternative methods for measuring attitudinal ambivalence. (MH)

Ecological violations, observer problems, and intrusions of real world phenomena are discussed in relation to observations of family interaction in home settings. (Author/SB)

This review covers selections from the literature published in 1976 on topics of interest in vocational and career behavior and development. Both theoretical and research contributions are included, representing investigations in vocational choice, career maturity and development, stereotyping, measurement, vocational behavior, and related…

Relates a follow-up study of newlywed couples nine months after marriage to determine the couple's appraisal of the most frequent causes of discord and unhappiness. (MH)

Describes an approach to facilitating students' understanding of themselves and others. It utilizes attribution theory, perceptual psychology, and literature to help students understand what leads people--themselves and others--to do the things they do. (Author/RK)

Provides research data supporting the hypothesis that communication apprehension is negatively related to the amount of self-disclosure. (MH)

Explores three possible sources of influence which the experimental psychologist may have upon the reading instructor: psychological findings, psychological models, and research methodology. Discusses who is responsible for applying psychological findings to educational concerns. (JM)

Reports on the analysis of 27 behavior modification programs for delinquents. Findings reveal that a low percentage of the programs have followup mechanisms and that the behavior which is modified is often not that which caused the problem. (CP)

Self prompting techniques were used to influence people to turn off lights in bathrooms. After consumers were given a method for self monitoring their behavior there was a significant drop in the number of times lights were left on in unoccupied bathrooms. (AJ)

The author examines the relationships existing between movement and cognition in child development. (MJB)