Investigates approval/disapproval of behavioral performance in terms of the relative status of male and female role positions. Reports that male role behaviors are more highly approved than female role behaviors for both male and female college students. (ST)

Training programs for auditory and for visual figure-ground perception were constructed and tested with brain-damaged and mentally retarded children. Training groups showed higher gain scores than the control group on both tests, but the effect was significant only for visual training on visual figure-ground perception. (Author/SJL)

Parents completed the Locke-Wallace Scale, the Interpersonal Checklist, and the Children's Behavior Checklist to assess marital satisfaction, congruence of perceptions, and agreement in perceptions of their child and child adjustment. Variables were positively intercorrelated. Similarity in partners' self-concepts and psychological empathy were…

Examined the applicability of an expectancy/decison model to assertiveness in a nonclinical population. Results suggest that participants consider the consequences of being assertive when making a decision about how to behave. Training programs should take into account the participant's perceptions of the risks involved in being assertive.…

Investigates the relationship between an observer's familiarity with the normal, truthful communicative behavior of an individual, and the observer's ability to detect deception on the part of that individual. Provides an experimental test of the degree of linearity between familiarity and judgmental accuracy in detecting deception. (JMF)

A laboratory for undergraduate physical education students was designed to apply academic theory to practical questions concerning the selection, quality, and performance of sport equipment. Various tests were conducted in an attempt to evaluate the performance of leather v synthetic basketballs. (JN)

Findings indicate that males and females report more similarities than differences in communicator style. The differences, however, are consistent and significant; males report being more precise while females report being more animated. (PD)

Suggests ways to interest male secondary students in joining Future Homemakers of America/Home Economics Related Occupations (FHA/HERO) through changing their ideas about homemaking skills and showing them how men as well as women need the training and can benefit from various home economics career fields. (MF)

Concludes that women's section reporters are generally more similar to city editors than to their own section editors, suggesting that they may be influenced by factors external to their immediate role environments. (GT)

Reports results of a study of three daily newspapers in India, which was designed to determine who sets news and editorial policy in Indian newspapers and what the social processes are by which staff members come to perceive and conform to the policy. (GT)

The authors examine the state of the art in the use of texture in tactual maps and graphics for visually handicapped persons. (Author/CL)

Head turning to off-centered sound was videotaped monthly for 13 infants during their first three months of life. (JMB)

The major conclusions of this survey were: (1) the more a decision task related to classroom instruction, the more faculty involvement in decision making occurred; and (2) the more the decisional task involved money, the less faculty involvement occurred. More detailed findings are discussed in this article and recommendations made. (Author/SJL)

The establishment of a Board of Certified Professional Counselors increases the professionalism of counselors. It assures the public of the counselor's competence, protects the profession and the counselor, and determines qualification for entrance into the profession. (JAC)

Only 11 of 22 mildly retarded young adults successfully passed a criterion pretest involving discriminating pairs of upright same-different cones. The 11 Ss performed poorly on a second task involving a more complex transformation. Ss who failed the criterion task produced primarily egocentric responses. (Author)