Nineteen children were rated on 24 behavior traits by ten nurses in a children's in-patient unit. (Author)

Classroom observation during an adult education course revealed that teachers behaved differently towards students they had been told were potential high-achievers--and that those students did perform well, even though the information given the teachers was false. (PD)

In order to extend sociological thinking about socialization in secondary schools, I have tested the contention that the social status of a high school independently affects the college-going intentions of its students, using data from a 1955 sample of students in 518 American high schools." (Author)

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)