Neural correlates of social-cognition were assessed in 9- to- 17-year-olds (N = 34) using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants appraised how unfamiliar peers they had previously identified as being of high or low interest would evaluate them for an anticipated online chat session. Differential age- and sex-related activation…

The founding fathers of the new Jewish community in "Eretz Yisrael" (the Land of Israel, or Palestine) as well as many philosophers, public figures, educators and authors both in Israel and in the Diaspora were preoccupied with the image of the new Israeli Hebrew. The educational system was seen as an instrument to create the "new…

This annotated bibliography was developed to help researchers work more effectively and efficiently in their study of heterosocial competency. An introductory section defines heterosocial skills as those skills related to beginning, carrying on, and concluding social interactions with members of the opposite sex. It notes that heterosocial…

Research and development to evaluate the utility of the PLATO IV computer system to train socially related leadership behaviors. (DAG)

Two experiments were conducted to test effects of infants' ability to locomote on their social and exploratory behaviors. Results indicated that walker-assisted or independent locomotion afforded similar experiences within a standard environment but experiences quite different from those of the nonlocomoting infant. (Author/RH)

Depressed (N=20) and nondepressed outpatients (N=20) and normal controls (N=20) rated the frequency with which they used various interpersonal behaviors in different social roles and emotional circumstances. Results showed that the three subject groups displayed similar patterns. This contradicts an invariant, trait-like interpersonal style among…

Ten-month-old infants in an unfamiliar environment with their mothers were left free to approach and touch a distant, unfamiliar object-a person or a toy. Results suggest that looking at persons constitutes exploratory behavior whereas touching and manipulating served this function with inanimate objects. (CS)

Sketches a model which considers society a teacher which instructs like an operant box..." The author contends that the family, the school, the play group, the adolescent gang, the office, the prison, the mental hospital, each reward, instruct and control the individual who learns by operant means what the institution teaches." (Author/AL)

Assertive behavior promotes the development of mutually satisfying relationships, with none of the disadvantages of passive or aggressive behavior. Because of the interpersonal and organizational benefits, managers should encourage assertive behavior throughout their organizations. (SK)

Using factor-analytic methodology, frequencies of various dyadic interactions were recorded in the "Iliad,""Beowulf," and "The Red Badge of Courage," literary works written approximately 1000 years apart. Results supported claims that interpersonal structures are universal but suggested the existence of an evolutionary process toward more…

The impact of anonymity on bystander reactions to emergencies and on the timing of bystander decision making was investigated in two laboratory experiments with college students. (Author/SS)

The author traces the origin of his thinking on a biobehavioral systems approach to human sociobiology and argues that it is a fruitful alternative to sociobiological models derived from population biology and genetics. Available from Behavioral Science, Systems Science Publications, University of Louisville, Louisvilly, KY 40208; sc $3.75.…