This study examined the relation between symbolic play training and conservation in 30 middle-class nonconserving 4-year-old children. Results showed that 13 experimental subjects manifested some change in solving conservation problems after symbolic play training while only one control subject showed any change toward conservation on the…

Active touch, passive touch with a moving object, and passive touch with a still object were examined developmentally with 192 subjects in first, third, and fifth grades and college. (Author/JMB)

Male and female students from grades 1, 3, 6, 8, and college watched a videotaped scene of a young female actress breaking a chair. Subjects were then asked to make attributions of causality and "naughtiness" to the chair breaker. Results were consistent with predictions based on Heider's theory of social attribution. (Author/JMB)

Experimental social histories were created for 22 6-month-old infants by providing structured interactions with three different adults (a distal interactor, a proximal interactor, and a neutral interactor) over a three-week period. Infants' social preferences (looking and approaching) for each of the interactors were then compared. (Author/JMB)

To assess relations between behaviors in a particular circumscribed caretaker-child interaction setting and child behavioral dispositions assessed by more extensive observation, caretaker-child interaction data was collected for 40 children across several days in a nursery school free-play setting. These data were related to child behavioral…

Analyses of data collected from 181 male and 301 female college students revealed that the students' Personality Research Form scales and their American College Testing scores were related to the cognitive behaviors of their parents. (Author/JMB)

Two studies were conducted to assess the relationship between expressive writing and ego identity development in college students. Results showed that poetry writers were more likely than students not writing poetry to be in the identity achievement status, and less likely to be in the foreclosure status or the identity diffusion status.…

The sighting dominance and acuity of second-, fourth-, and seventh-grade children, and of college students were measured. Results showed a right versus left sighting dominance occurring in a ratio of 2:1 at each age. Patterns of acuity dominance also remained constant across grades. (Author/JMB)

The relation between familiarity and peer liking was studied in 96 elementary school-aged children. Pictures of boys' and girls' faces shown at different frequencies were ranked according to liking. Marked individual differences and effects for degree of children's sex-typed attitudes were found. (Author/JMB)

A brief training procedure designed to improve elementary school children's performance on the Children's Embedded Figures Test resulted in significant improvement for girls but not for boys. (Author/JMB)

Two sets of tasks designed to measure operational thinking and the problem-finding skill of asking general questions were administered to 7-, 9-, and 11-year-old children. Analyses performed on the quality of the children's questions revealed developmental trends consistent with earlier work on problem finding. (Author/JMB)

The verbal interaction of mothers and their children in mother-child dyads was examined in twelve 2-year-olds and twelve 3-year-olds and their mothers. (Author/SB)

This study of 12 white, upper-middle-class mothers and their children was conducted to provide information on how verbal aspects of mother-child interaction are differentiated by sex of the child. Results suggest greater verbal quantity and responsivity for mother-female compared with mother-male dyads. (Author/SB)