Parents' teaching behavior was observed in a structured interaction task designed both to explore a different method for observing parental behavior, and to investigate the relationship between parental behavior and personality. (Authors)

Argument of this article is that the instrumental approach to communication, or as authors label it, the rhetorical approach, best promises to facilitate human understanding and to effect social cohesion. (Editor/MB)

Significant correlations were obtained between the language comprehension scores of the children and both the quality of the task directed to them and the way in which the nursery was organized. (Authors)

The study defined, through statistical syndrome analyses, total profile cluster types of classroom behavior exhibited by normal children in grades K-6. Determined was how children whose patterns were similar differed in achievement, normalcy, and other variables from children exhibiting other patterns. (Author/KW)

Eleven occupational values were entered in a stepwise discriminant analysis of the responses of students in second level courses in law, medicine, engineering, business, and education. Five variables provided significant discrimination: pay received, advancement, working conditions, fringe benefits, prestige. (Author)

A developmental model for paranoid behavior has been proposed which postulates that the attempt to adapt to sustained aversive maternal control by manipulative social approach behaviors (open adaptive style) leaves the person vulnerable to emerging paranoid tendencies. (Author)

Younger men are both less engaged from the world and more efficient processors of information than older (especially less educated) ones. (Authors)

Discusses increase of suburban delinquency and over-representation in less serious crimes, and implications for those who deal directly with these youngsters. (EK)

Discusses five areas of concern related to utilization of group experiences: (1) insufficient training of group leaders, (2) possibility of groups becoming mystic cults, (3) equating of therapeutic gain with expressing of negative feeling, (4) lack of awareness that group change may result from pressure to conform, (5) possible harmful…

Primary emphasis of the model is on the analysis of behavior as it is elicited in specific situations, the primary goal being to acquire relevant information that will contribute to decisions as to desired changes in behavior. (Author)