School administrators might gain an idea of prospective teachers from scores on a test of creativity such as Adjustive Check List. Confirming evidence also indicates that identification of highly creative adults may be made by asking them about their creativity. (Author/CJ)

The principle of linguistic relativity, or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, does not provide sufficient reason to vary the language form of a research document." (DB)

This study tested Tompkins' ideo- affective resonance theory, according to which there is a love-affair between ideological belief and personal feelings." A theory that social behavior is a function of tendencies to help or hurt oneself and/or others" was suggested by results. (Author/DB)

The Personality Research Form (PRF) and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were administered to 212 males. An analysis yielded seven interpretable factors. Factors were associated with orientations toward achievement-related goals, human relations management, impulse expression, practical goals, managerial control, aesthetic-intellectual…

Paper presented at the Conference on Research in Medical Education, 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968.

Factor scores from Bayley's Infant Behavior Record (obtained from 300 to 400 infants at six, 12, 18, and 24 months) were selected to represent three aspects of infant behavior: task orientation, test affect-extraversion, and activity. Findings indicate reordering of individual differences is age-related and that the reordering sequence is somewhat…

Investigated whether, in a sample of 30 infants, anger could reliably be observed in facial expressions as early as seven months of age. Also considered was the influence of several variables on anger responses: infants' familiarity with the frustrator, repetition of trials, and sex of the child. (Author/RH)

Two dimensions of Carl Jung's psychological system (preference for information and choice of decision making processes) are applied to creativity research. Examples of four personality types (sensing- thinking, sensing-feeling, intuition-feeling, and intuition-thinking) are represented by prominent social scientists. A systems model of science is…

Examines measurement scales used in different studies of the relationship between masculinity, femininity, or androgyny, and self esteem. Suggests that findings of a high positive association between masculinity and self-esteem may be due to the fact that the most commonly used measurement scales do, in fact, endorse masculine characteristics.…

Investigated relationships between 155 managers' personalities (rigidity, intolerance of ambiguity, locus of control) and their leadership perceptions (initiating structure, consideration, and least preferred co-worker). Only two of the twenty-four differences between means exhibited statistical significance, providing little support for a…

Erikson discusses the experience of growing old and how it is changing. He reflects on the life cycle and his theory of human development, and on Gandhi's technique of nonviolence and its relationship to generativity. (SK)

The institutionalized retarded group was found to be more imitative on the first task. For all groups, peers as opposed to adults were found to be the more salient model on the second task than the other groups suggesting more compliant personalities in the institutionalized group. Author/SW)