Present findings can be integrated with previous work by indicating that the A therapists were concerned with other people, feelings, and possible new ways of looking at things, whereas the Bs are more concerned with established facts and objects in the external world. (Author)

The hypothesis was tested that subjects fake personality tests by enacting a specific social role, rather than by responding in terms of personality constructs, and that such role faking cannot be detected by validity scales. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)

Subjects' willingness to endorse "universally valid" statements as accurate and meaningful has been demonstrated on repeated occasions. This study investigates whether this "Barnum" effect is best attributed to the prestige of psychologists or to the nature of the statements themselves. (Author)

Supported by research grants MH-07003 and MH-11521 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

Chapter 6 in Life Skills in School and Society

Study conducted as part of a master's thesis at Marquette University.