Compared the behavior of 48 preadolescent boys with and without peer adjustment problems in a naturalistic school setting. Analyses provided general support for the reciprocity hypothesis, which posits that individuals tend to match the affective quality of a response to that of the previous response. (LLL)

This study examines the effects of cooperative versus competitive goal structures on the subsequent intra- and interpersonal behavior of fourth-grade children. Results indicate that the effects of competitively structured environments differ for winners and nonwinners and for boys and girls. (Author/SB)

Privacy is conceptualized as a dynamic, interpersonal boundary control process which regulates access to the self. Coupled with desired and achieved privacy levels, a series of social interaction cases are described involving satisfactory and unsatisfactory input-output relationships with others. Mechanisms used to implement desired levels of…

It was predicted that the amount of satisfaction following an interpersonal exchange will be higher when the resource given is similar to the one reciprocated and lower when they are dissimilar. Interpersonal exchange situations were experimentally created in which two independent variables were manipulated. (Author)

Although it is perfectly responsible and permissible for scientists to disagree in interpretations about the meaning of a body of data, to suppress or cover up harmful effects data is highly unethical, irresponsible, and contrary to most canons of the scientific community. (Author/RK)

Attempts to relate psychosocial maturity to social behavior, specifically, to interpersonal attraction. (Author/RK)

The impact of radio and television on spoken and written language is discussed by a professor emeritus of Romance philology. Consideration is given to the relationship between the degeneration of language and the degeneration of customs and moral standards. (LBH)

An experiment on the role of the language of instruction in mediating responses to social pressure was conducted with a sample of 41 Russian-born adolescents who had recently immigrated to Israel. (Editor)

Subjects (N=18) were treated for social nonassertion, nine in a behavioral rehearsal group and nine in an eclectic nonrehearsal group. Comparisons were made based on physiological, behavioral, and self-report measures. Both treatment groups displayed statistically significant increases in assertive behaviors. (Author)

Research on environmental strategies to increase positive peer interactions has been conducted on a wide range of children, including 2- to 5-year-old typically developing children and children with a variety of developmental and social disabilities. Intervention efforts have been successful with both typically developing children and children…

The assertion that Neurological Organization treatment procedures are potentially harmful is not supported by the data in this study, although negative results of such treatment on the child's linguistic and social behavior and on the functioning of the family unit has been frequently conjectured. (Author/RB)

In two experiments involving a two-choice marble dropping game children responded more to social control than to the magnitude of the reward. (ST)

The choice behaviors of Mexican American and Anglo American children in a maximizing difference game were compared to study the development of social motives. (Author/KM)

School Counseling is discussed in relation to secondary levels of education, and in particular, this article is concerned with the social orientation of youth. (Author/RK)

Mexican-American, Negro, and Anglo-American children participating in a two-person, two-choice game, showed that similar female ethnic pairs cooperated significantly more than dissimilar pairs; that females in the three groups differed significantly in the amount of cooperative behavior, and that reinforcement did not affect cooperative behavior.…