A case study is presented in which a patient received four MMPIs and attempted to present himself as mentally healthy though suffering from a mental disorder. The changes on the MMPI profiles are interpreted in terms of the patient's clinically observed dynamics. Implications are discussed. (Author)

Describing two studies, the author concluded that need for achievement is not unconscious and that the self-peer rank method may be a useful adjunct to assessment procedures. (Author)

Members of a longitudinal study were classified on the basis of their drinking behavior. The core of traits which described the cohorts of each category of women drinkers were discernible to raters in the early adolescent period. Problem drinkers and abstainers had in common certain traits which suggested inadequate coping devices. (Author)

Creative Ss had a stronger cathexis of research activity and were highly flexible, original, and rejecting of outside influence. They had identified primarily with their fathers, and that their interest in mathematics had arisen from sublimation or search for autonomy in fantasy rather than from reaction formation or withdrawal. (Author)

The 135 items from the EPPS were arranged in 5 choice Likert format and presented to 315 subjects. Results suggested reliabile and meaningful measurement of each of four underlying dimensions in the normative form of the EPPS is possible with the four factor analytic scales developed. (Author)

Study results extend conclusions of Berdie and Hood (1966) that personality test scores are relatively unimportant in predicting college attendance. (Author)

Relationship between Type A/B behavior patterns and motive of success avoidance in women was investigated. Type B women are concerned with antagonizing others as a result of succeeding more than Type A women. Type B women may be realistically appraising achievement situations, especially the costs of success through competition. (Author/RD)

Tested predictions derived from Eysenck's theory of personality in two samples by relating extraversion scores to library study locations, frequency of study breaks, and self-report of factors which influence study location. Found predicted main effects for study location with extraverts occupying locations that provided greater external…