This study manipulated norms governing interaction levels in crowded groups of women. Results indicated norms influenced reactions to crowding as predicted. Women reacted most positively when interaction levels were high and most negatively when interaction levels were low. (Author)

Investigates the attitudes of Black manpower trainees toward white counselors before and after receiving counseling. Results indicate experience with white counselors is not entirely negative, but experience with a black counselor is clearly positive. (Author)

The Teacher-Pupil Interaction Scale was developed for use by educational consultants to provide teachers with systematic data for analyzing and improving the learning of pupils. Using the sequential record of verbal and nonverbal interactions with students, teachers can pinpoint conditions serving both as antecedents and consequents of current…

Interaction Analysis for Vocational Education (IAVE) expands Flanders Interaction Analysis System (FIAS) by adding three new catergories: demonstrations, correction, and practice. Interpretation of the new matrix is essentially the same as before. (MS)

The "how" of teaching is as significant as the "what". This was the content of a nonlecture session at the N.C.G.E. Milwaukee meeting that was structured to give participants an experience in a dynamic model of process instruction. (Author/JH)

Article analyses the nature of artificial barriers which a technological society sets up between people by emphasizing product rather than product-as-a-part-of-process. Author looks at encounter groups attempts to break down these barriers. (HB)

Two tools which can be used to evaluate quantitatively aspects of air pollution control devices are described. One is a chart measuring the effectiveness of incinerator afterburners and vapor incinerators; the other, a psychrometric graph for the humidifying and cooling of gases. Research needs are also specified. (BL)

The present study was based on the assumption that a focus on the content of the interaction process would also provide meaningful data on the relationship between family interaction and behavior disorder. (Author)

The study was designed to assess the impact of a structured communications skills workshop of self-referred clients who expressed problems in feeling uncomfortable, awkward, or isolated in their relationships with others. (Author)

The importance of talkativeness or the relative frequency of contributing to task interaction was examined as a factor which determines person perception. Quantity but not quality of task contributions was significantly related to the attribution of creativity and influence over others. (Author/JB)

Experiment designed to manipulate the perceived person's looking behavior and the perceiver's attitudes toward him in an effort to determine if one is more potent or if they interact in affecting the perceiver's degree of search for eye contact. (Authors/MB)

Results reflect primarily a higher number of instructional contacts to girls rather than a tendency of teachers to be more reinforcing to them. (Authors)