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Balazs, Eva K. – Research Quarterly, 1975
This was an ex post facto analysis of the life histories of 24 Olympic female champions to determine events and variables in the psychological and social driving forces behind outstanding achievement in sports. (RC)
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Females, Psychological Characteristics
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Turner, Charles W.; Goldsmith, Diane – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
To assess the effects of toy guns and toy airplanes on children's antisocial behavior, 4- and 5-year-olds (ten in Study I and 13 in Study II) were observed during 15-16 free play sessions. During experimental sessions children played either with (novel, aggressive) toy guns or with (novel, nonaggressive) toy airplanes in addition to their usual…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Early Childhood Education, Play
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Hartmann, Donald P.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
Thirty-five 6- to 10-year-old children with initial low rates of donating to help a peer either received a fine for each failure to donate or also were informed of the contingency between the fine and failure to donate. (JH)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Elementary Education, Helping Relationship, Negative Reinforcement
Akiba, Daisuke; Malow-Iroff, Micheline; Rukenstein, Audry – Online Submission, 2006
Previous research has demonstrated that participation in extracurricular activities, such as sports and music, frequently predicts "healthy" academic and social outcomes among children. The present study examines the lives of elementary school children who participate in acting both as an extracurricular activity and as a profession, by…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities, Family Role, Social Development
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Roy, Maurice – Community Development Journal, 1973
Cardinal Roy, President of the Pontifical Commission for International Justice and Peace, maintains that economic objectives for social development fail to consider the problems of the new era and result in an improper distribution of the benefits of development. He hopes that Christians will express their brotherhood by remedying social…
Descriptors: Christianity, Economic Factors, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Miller, Wesley – Educational Leadership, 1972
There exist today two groups, each seeing the world through different eyes-one cool, detached, rational; the other passionate, involved, visceral. Thus the conflict has developed between those who wish to experience the environment and those who would control it. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Existentialism, Humanism, Individualism
Bidwell, Charles E. – Interchange, 1972
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Objectives, Moral Values, Social Development
Earls, Patricia – Elementary English, 1972
Hints on making learning fun. (SP)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Humor, Social Development, Social Life
Western European Education, 1972
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Education, Moral Values, Social Development
Ehrle, Raymond A. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1972
The thesis is presented that manpower programs are a third major approach to the socialization of the young in a capital-intensive society--after the family and school systems. (Author)
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Labor Force Development, Labor Utilization, Social Development
Schamber, Exine – Today's Education, 1972
Describes a program that succeeded in involving sixth grade children with residents of two nursing homes. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Emotional Development, Empathy, Experience
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Tymchuk, Alexander J. – Mental Retardation, 1971
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
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Rawls, Donna J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971
Results indicated that children who did not exhibit allergic reactions were otherwise healthier and were rated as superior on a number of academic, social, and emotional adjustment dimensions. (Author)
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Allergy, Children
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Horlick, Allan S. – History of Education Quarterly, 1971
Phrenology provided a means of screening job applicants during the wave of urban immigration of the 1850s. (RA)
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications, Employment Services, Neurological Organization
Mitchell, Anna C.; Smeriglio, Vincent – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1970
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Interpersonal Competence, Mental Retardation
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