Behavioral assessment methods for measuring the social development of exceptional children include teacher nominations, rankings, rating scales, and checklists. Use of direct observation procedures in analogue (simulated) and naturalistic settings can pinpoint antecedents and consequences of social behavior and provide goals for intervention. (CL)

Tests the relationship between social cognition and children's aggressive behavior. Aggressive and nonaggressive boys from grades 2, 4, and 6 were exposed to a frustrating negative outcome instigated by an unknown peer who acted with either hostile, benign, or ambiguous intent. (CM)

Interaction between mother and first-born child before and after the birth of a second child was studied in 41 families, using home observations and interview techniques. (MP)

Tests the hypothesis that a child's activity preferences may predict subsequent changes in the child's aggression, insofar as activity preferences partly determine how much time the child spends in aggression-conducive situations. (Author/RH)

Examines the extent to which statements representing eight broad dimensions of communication are associated with words commonly used to identify relationships of varying degrees of intimacy. Dimensions of the interaction included are uniqueness, depth, breadth, efficiency, flexibility, smoothness, spontaneity, and overt evaluations. (JMF)

Since several investigators have found language and play development to be interrelated, free play classifications were constructed for the assessment of social participation, cognitive play, and nonplayful activities for both normally hearing and hearing impaired preschoolers. (Author)

Reports on a 1972 study of nursery school children's racial attitudes compared with those of older children. Children were tested with a semantic differential questionnaire and a social distance scale and were compared across age and race. Concludes that the norm for racial attitudes is a bias for one's own race. (MK)

The article examines some of the special academic, psychosocial, and career problems of adolescents and young adults resulting from early severe auditory deprivation. The academic, psychosocial, and career development of deaf adolescents are considered. (DLS)

The effect of two types of role-taking training experiences on role taking, empathy, altruism, and aggression was investigated in 30 six- and 30 nine-year-old boys. (SS)

Infant-toy and infant-adult interaction were observed in four conditions which varied the degree of adult-toy manipulation. Subjects were 48 infants 11-13 months of age. (Author/SS)

Investigates two levels of the spontaneous inference of thinking in others (nonrecursive and recursive) in children of ages 10, 12, 14 and 16 using a person description task. (Author/SS)

Two studies evaluate several ecological conditions under which early social relations might be established and changed, paying particular attention to the relative novelty of children's toys. Both studies involved two adults with individual preschool children for several successive play sessions. (Author/SB)

Examined relationship of emotion regulation and emotionality to social functioning in 77 children followed from age 4 to age 10. Found that high-quality social functioning was predicted by high emotion regulation and low nonconstructive coping, negative emotionality, and emotional intensity. Measures of regulation and emotionality frequently…

Compared third and fourth graders' responses to general self-concept questionnaire items when they were included in academic, social, or physical domain items. Found that there were high and significant loadings of general self-concept indicators on the academic, social, and physical factors, and low or nonsignificant loadings of the same…

The scientific community has a system of friendships, rivalries, customs, rules, social structures, and mores. Scientists have certain strengths and weaknesses, virtues and limitations. Students studying science can profit by examining some of these behaviors. Examines categories of human social development (such as cooperation/competition, moral…