An assessment of the prospects for future economic and social development is provided. These include capitalist, socialist, and utopian ideas, but not in the form that traditional advocates of these three social visions have predicted. (Author/RM)

The interaction place map, a mnemonic device which depicts the five most common places in which humans interact, can be used to teach social skills to elementary learning disabled students. Students can plot movement on the map as they move within an interaction. (CL)

Research is cited on methods to teach, generalize, and evaluate social interaction skills to handicapped children through specific systematic instruction that considers prompts, praise, training settings, time of day, teacher role, student grouping, and nature of activities. (CL)

The social judgments of 75 subjects aged 11 and 75 aged 14 were compared using Peel's three categories of judgment to measure and evaluate responses. Clear, if limited, evidence for progress between the two ages in the ability to judge other people's perspectives was obtained, in line with Peel's general theory. (Author)

Education for gifted elementary students should concentrate on developing intrapsychic and social competencies. A foundation in which students share in goal setting, increase task persistence, and learn to question and challenge will promote later intellectual achievement. (CL)

This study charted the increase with age in trait inference and examined the accompanying organizational processes. Results indicated that trait inference appeared as early as kindergarten and increased in frequency up to sixth grade. (Author/SB)

Sixty children were exposed to moral arguments one or two stages above their dominant moral development stage as assessed on Kohlberg's scales. Results indicated overall change in moral concepts and attitudes, with role play procedures being no more effective than passive listening in producing change. (Author/SB)

This article presents a student orientation program that consists of a series of wilderness outings. (HS)

This paper is based upon a doctoral dissertation submitted to Stanford University.

Suggests how simple role-playing can be used to improve social interaction of primary students. (MG)

Thirty-eight infants were observed interacting separately with their mothers and fathers in the home at seven and twelve months of age. Social initiative measures and reciprocal parental response measures adopted from Clarke-Stewart were used. The infants distributed their social initiative equally to both parents but made fewer initiatives when…

Social maturity in deaf children has been gauged by the norms of hearing counterparts. This does not take into consideration differences in maturity rates or ways of maturing, factors which contribute to delayed or accelerated development, peer measures, and comparisons to other groups deprived of elements contributing to accepted growth. (Author)

The study investigated the effects of a behavioral teaching interaction strategy on greeting, departure, and telephone skills of a 10-year-old emotionally disturbed youngster in a residential setting. The interaction included instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and reinforcement components and was found effective in increasing and maintaining the…

Seventeen 10 year old academically talented students were compared to 15 10-year-old and 20 12-year-old average students in responses to videotaped vignettes depicting interpersonal interactions. Results supported the notion that interpersonal sensitivity is developmental in nature, but not suggestions of the superior interpersonal sensitivity of…