Authors examined four behavior patterns exibited by students in the classroom. (Editor/RK)

Considered the nature of the problems and opportunities of the field of consumer education. (Author/RK)

Investigates the ability of volunteer telephone services to furnish facilitative conditions to callers by determining the level of empathic understanding offered by such volunteers. Uses Carkhuff's Five-Point Empathy Scale to indicate that the length of calls increases as the level of empathic understanding offered rises. (Author/PC)

The purpose of this study was to examine children's reactions to different types of peer behaviors which are indicative of emotional disturbance. Subjects were found to view distrubed peers as unattractive and were unwilling to associate with them. (EK)

A review of studies concerning the reading habits of people 65 years old or older shows that females spend more time reading then do males; senior citizens do not suddenly develop new or extensive reading habits; they prefer light romance with no sex, biographies, westerns, and mysteries; intellectual and physical disabilities are not major…

Available from: Editor, Journal of Popular Culture, University Hall, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403. (RB)

Investigated the child-holding patterns represented in Western art by examining the mother-and-child paintings and drawings of 34 major European artists. Works of art depicting men holding young children are examined for comparison. (Author/SDH)

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) patterns can be tied feasibily to personality descriptions. A method is presented for the actuarialstudy of WAIS patterns. (Author/DEP)

Judgements of the behavior of boys and girls in relation to the individual teacher's own standard of Ideal Student shows that female teachers significantly saw the behavior of girls as closer to the Ideal Student than that of boys, while male teachers did not. (Author)

Describes the structure of spontaneous episodes of dyadic play and suggests some of the basic abilities which underlie social play, based on observation of 36 15-20 minute videotaped play sessions involving groups of three children each, ages 3 1/2 to 5 1/2 years. (ED)

Examines the relationship between the Perceived Guilt Index, the Mosher Forced Choice Guilt Scale, and the Word Association Test. (Author)

Two groups of paid female students were employed in a modified Aronson and Carlsmith (1962) expectancy-performance design. Overall results did not support predictions derived from dissonance theory. (Author)

Research explains why some television editorials are effective in altering attitudes and behavior while others are not. (RB)