Articles taken from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1974 were reviewed for sex of subjects and type of conclusion drawn. Contrary to the Schwabacher study, the percentage of all male studies show a sharp drop of 15 percent while all female studies rose 22 percent. (Author)

Several factors thought to influence the representativeness of behavioral assessment data were examined in an analogue study employing a multifactorial design. Systematic and unsystematic methods of observing group behavior were investigated using 18 male and 18 female observers. Additionally, valence properties of the observed behaviors were…

Active research can be one area of enrichment in which counselors may gain personal growth, self-discipline, and personal development. The developer of the research project also gains in knowledge and practice in the specific areas of information retrieval systems. The counselor becomes aware of the methodology used in the preparation of a…

Subjects were 80 undergraduates, randomly assigned to conditions by sex. The design included three variables: sex, placebo, and motivation. The present hypothesis-- that given the level of motivation appropriate for the subject's sex, males and females would not differ in effects of a placebo--found support in the data. (Author)

Measures of creativity, openness to experience, and sensation seeking were intercorrelated among female (N=51) and male (N=49) college students. Male creativity correlated most strongly with openness to theoretical and aesthetic experiences and creative thoughts. For females, creativity, openness to inner experiences, and sensation seeking were…

This research paper examines the meaningfulness of sex differences in the Allport, Vernon and Lindzey (AVL) Study of Values Scale and in selected scales of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), using somewhat diverse groups of men and women. By comparing men's and women's scores on the two measures, it was found that little accuracy in…

This document reports on recent trends in graduate school survival. Data were obtained from a national study of 1950-1953 post-master's students; a recent pilot project in attrition conducted at the University of California, Berkeley; and on trend data in doctoral attrition provided by the Graduate Division at Berkeley. Emphasis is placed on the…

Undergraduates, divided into three groups--high verbal-low spatial (HiV-LoS), intermediate, and a high spatial-low verbal group (HiS-LoV)-- ties test. For males at least, the groups differed significantly on certaintook Cattell's 16PF questionnaire and Thurston's Primary Mental Abili personality variables involving response to social stimuli.…

The attendance behavior of students who were new to Grand Valley State Colleges (GVSC) for both fall 1975 and fall 1976 is analyzed, comparing those who returned for winter term against those who did not. Seventy-three percent of the new students entering in fall 1975 were found to return for the winter term compared to 68 percent of those…

Sex differences in language development were studied. Protocols from 54 children, aged 2;0 to 4;2, were analyzed with Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) as the independent variable. When MLU's reached 3.75 to 4.0, differences began to favor girls. Results are discussed in terms of a social learning model and a cognitive model. (Author)

Investigates the pattern of clients' precounseling expectancies, whether these differ for male and female clients, and the relationship between clients' expected content emphasis and the actual emphasis during counseling sessions. (Author)

Bem's definition of psychological androgyny obscures a potentially important distinction between those individuals who score high on both masculinity and femininity and those individuals who score low on both. To assess the importance of this distinction, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory was administered to undergraduate subjects. (Author)

An analysis was made of students at Grand Valley State Colleges who enrolled in fall 1975 and in winter 1976. Of the group of students enrolled fall 1975, those who returned winter 1976 had the following characteristics compared to those who did not return: a higher percentage of males than females, and of single students than married students; a…

A study was conducted of faculty research productivity to examine differences in productivity based on gender and on employment status (tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track). The research productivity of 63 full-time faculty members in the college of education at a public university were assessed, with productivity defined in terms of the…

This study examines four hypotheses concerning the nature of fear of success (FOS). Data were gathered in two stages. First, respondents in a large sample survey of metropolitan Detroit area residents were asked to tell a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) story. In the second stage, white currently-married females aged 18 to 56 whose households…