This study investigated the effect of active participation in a story reading on children's understanding of false belief. Children, ages 38-63 months, were assigned to a participation or non-participation group. Participating children engaged in a book-reading process using puppets to respond to the story. Non-participating children were read the…

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Children of the Sun," by N. Scott Momaday. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," is in the form of a Director's Notebook--a scrapbook/journal of clippings, memos, lists, illustrations, notes, and other items--to show students how a…

In an extension of an early social facilitation study, 80 female college students reproduced a partially learned Indian folktale before both large and small audiences. Subjects showed greater verbal production but less accuracy before the large audiences. (Author)

Developed a model and tested the following hypotheses: (1) esthetic features--tempo, rhythm, dynamics, and phrasing in piano performance--are accurately perceived by audience members and (2) such perceptual veridicality does not depend upon one's degree of education/training and is therefore shared by critics and audience members. (PD)

Examines the distribution of age roles in prime-time and weekend daytime (children's) network television drama. Analyzes the content of program samples and survey data on attitudes and opinions to determine how conceptions of social reality are affected by television viewing habits. (JMF)

Examines the relationship between family members' perceptions of the communication environment in their homes (socio-oriented or concept-oriented) and the ways in which these individuals say they use television for the accomplishment of interpersonal objectives in the family context. (JMF)

Discusses the problems of evaluating the ability of public television to perform a teaching role. (JMF)

Reviews research on the role of scientists, mass media and journalists, audience interests and habits, information content and design on the dissemination of scientific information. (JMF)

Presents the text of an interview with Robert Brustein, Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre from 1966 until 1979. Discusses his work with experimental theater at Yale and the place of theater and drama in the university and society. (PD)

Examines the implications of the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) program in India for development policy. Assesses the project's performance in terms of the feasibility and usefulness of large-scale rural broadcasting by satellite. Uses the experience to generalize about producing educational programing for heterogeneous rural…

Addresses such broad issues as the function of public radio in contemporary American culture, and how its public service justifies the public money it now receives, or any increased amounts it might receive in the future. (Author/CMV)

A survey of 481 individuals from a major southwestern metropolitan area suggests that a newspaper audience is not monolithic but rather a collection of numerous subsegments with different attitudes and needs regarding newspapers. (GT)

Hypothesizes that instrumental media motivation, selectivity, attention, and involvement are positive predictors of satisfaction, parasocial interaction, and cultivation effects from watching daytime television serials; avoidance, distraction, and skepticism were seen as negative predictors. Finds support for these expectations through three path…