A sample of 79 children from 5 to 8 years of age were observed for a 6-week period while they attended summer camp. Their inferential ability was assessed by asking each child to interpret a series of videotaped social episodes which were then related to their observed assertive and prosocial behaviors. (Author/JMB)

A total of 162 kindergarten children were asked to choose between immediate small and delayed larger rewards and also to guess the response of a smart or a stupid child in the same circumstances. (Author/JMB)

The effects of three treatments on third- and fourth-grade socially isolated children were compared. The treatments were: (1) playing games with peers accompanied by adult coaching in social skills relative to friendship making, (2) playing games with peers, and (3) playing solitary games in the presence of peers. (Author/JMB)

A sample of 355 first-, third-, and fifth-grade children from a middle-class school were asked to rate each of 40 adult occupations as male, female, or neutral, in terms of their attitudes about which sex has the abilities to do each job. (Author/JMB)

This study assessed 113 children in eight Head Start classrooms using both sociometric measures of acceptance and rejection and observational measures of behavior when alone, when interacting with peers, and when interacting with the teacher. Results suggested that these two measures of social isolation do not tap the same dimension. (Author/JMB)

A total of 72 elementary school students responded to six moral judgment story pairs which corresponded to all the possible combinations of intentionality (intentional/unintentional) and type of damage (personal injury/property damage). (Author/JMB)

Studied the effect of varying amount and concentration of a sucrose solution on swallowing and sucking activity of newborns. (Author/JMB)

A factor analysis was performed on the behavioral items of the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale for an urban population of 328 newborns. (Author/JMB)

Familiarity of the setting, the mother's presence, sex of the stranger, and the distance separating the infant and the stranger were varied to examine the expression of stranger fear in 32 infants from 6 to 11 months of age. (Author/JMB)

A series of experiments is described whose aim was to define certain of the effective dimensions of stimulation in the newborn's visual environment. (Author/JMB)

An infant control habituation-recovery procedure was used to study 3-month-old infants' discrimination of sad, happy, and surprise facial expressions. (Author/JMB)

A sample of six newborn infants were picked up when spontaneously awake, and were presented recorded mother-talk while being held to the shoulder. Control groups received the same recorded stimulus while awake in the crib or received no stimulus trials. (Author/JMB)

Ten elementary school teachers were asked to select from their classrooms boy and girl pairs whom they would label as best, average, and least well-behaved in classroom conduct. Retrospective teacher ratings and immediate behavioral observation data were then collected for each of these students. (Author/JMB)

Developmental changes in 5- to 7-year-old children's mental representation of addition and subtraction events were examined by means of the response times required to answer more or less questions. (Author/JMB)