The feasibility of personality measurement through the Semantic Differential and an examination of the degree of relationship between the semantic space and the preference and similarity space derived by independent means are reported. All three phases of the study met with essentially negative results. (Author/NE)

This investigation examines the attitude-ambivalence measurement problem in the context of defining outcome criteria on which to measure the effects of aversive conditioning in alcoholism. (Author)

This article presents an examination of several personality theories, questioning their relevance and appropriateness for women and also the counseling methods and approaches based upon these theories. (JC)

This study investigated whether personality needs discriminate between counselor trainees who prefer the administrator specialty and those who prefer the practitioner functional specialty. The results suggest that the Personality Research Form (PRF) may have value as a tool in the selection of counselors. (Author)

Subjects who reported that their parents used more punishing- and controlling-type behaviors were found to have greater expectations of control by powerful others, while subjects who viewed their parents as using unpredictable standards had stronger chance orientations. (ST)

One hundred and two subjects were given three verbal concept acquisition tasks. Repression, High defensiveness, and low psychoastenia were found to be significantly associated with high acquisition scores. (Author/KM)

Purpose of this paper is to prove a psychometrically sound measuring device within an acceptable, standardized, manipulable, paradigmatic methodology, for the study of interpersonal distance and its parameters. (Authors/CB)

Reprint requests should be directed to the author, Department of Psychology, LSUNO-Lakefront, New Orleans, Louisiana 70122. An ALDOUS user's manual is available. (Author/CB)

Author investigated the possibility that Christian institutions of learning have made distinctive contributions to American society. (Author/RK)

The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was administered to 103 children from seven kibbutzim under frequent shelling and 90 children from seven kibbutzim that were never under fire. Contrary to the hypotheses that the children from the bombarded kibbutzim would have a higher level of anxiety than those from the nonbombarded ones, no significant…

Comments on a study which appeared in the Journal of Counseling Psychology v18 p431-436, by Graff, MacLean, and Loving. (CJ)

Research is contradictory concerning ability of the Wechsler Object Assembly (OA) subtest to predict bodily preoccupations. This study presents data from an objective personality test that do not support the hypothesis that bodily concerns are indicated by impaired performance on the WAIS OA subtest. (Author)

Meanings, ideas, and theories about personality and the self are examined in this article. It is suggested that first year psychology courses can be improved if concepts like real self are studied professionally by psychologists and the process shared with students. (Author/SM)