Reviews changes in emotional response and personality occurring after damage to frontal systems, proposes operational definitions, and analyzes reports according to these definitions. Summarizes neurological causes of frontal lobe damage and associations of frontal dysfunction with psychiatric disturbances. Proposes that primary change after…

Nigerian male teacher education students (n=100) completed the Adjective Check List, with these findings: (1) self-concept was not an important influence on career choice; (2) self-description did not correlate with subject's description of a member of a least preferred occupation. Influence of parents and extended family must be considered in…

As the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator becomes increasingly popular as a management and training tool, criticisms of its reliability, validity, and effectiveness have arisen. Some critics see it as a way of giving people type-based excuses for substandard performance. Proponents claim it can match people with a congruent job better than any other…

Describes Super's construct of adaptability and reviews research on the construct. Discusses related counseling research that uses the construct and research in area of organizational psychology that addresses concept but does not use the term. Summarizes other approaches to need for adaptability in adult career development and presents…

Presents case of influential corporate executive who apparently killed himself and two others when faced with public exposure and perhaps imprisonment for illegal use of his corporate position to raise money for political and charitable causes he favored. Case is based on extensive psychological autopsy. (Author/NB)

Although at-risk children develop more problems than the general population, many become healthy, competent young adults. Resilient children usually possess social competence, problem-solving skills, autonomy, and a sense of purpose and future. Families, schools, and communities protecting children from adversity are characterized by caring and…

Examined applicability of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) usage with newly admitted chemically dependent adolescents (n=103) to treatment program. Findings suggest that significant percent of adolescent MMPI profiles are of questionable validity when instruments are administered during first 72 hours of treatment because of…

Consensus refers to the extent of two judges' agreement in rating a common target. A general model of interpersonal perception based on the weighted average model of N. H. Anderson (1981) is developed to show that increased acquaintance does not always lead to changes in consensus. (SLD)

L. L. Thurstone's revolutionary article resulted in the development of many representational measurement models, but the introduction of "true measurement" in social, attitudinal, and personality psychology did not yield the progress Thurstone envisioned. This specific model is seldom used in these areas today. (SLD)

Discusses racism, sexism, and sexual orientation through an analysis of the play "M. Butterfly." Focusing on the French diplomat, Gallimard, the essay discusses sexual orientation, explores Gallimard's racist investments in his orientalized vision of Song, and discusses his attempt to explain his love affair as heterosexual love gone…

Whether people with similar cognitive abilities, vocational interests, and personality characteristics choose similar jobs was studied for 139 job applicants at an employment agency. Although people with similar cognitive abilities and vocational interests chose similar jobs, those with similar personalities did not. (SLD)

A survey of 1,482 high school students in spring and fall 1986 resulted in confirmation of the Problem Behavior Theory as a predictor of drinking and driving among adolescents. Environmental, behavioral, and demographic factors account for 50 percent of the variance in drinking and driving. (SK)

Investigates the relationship of native speakers' (NSs) personal traits and experience interacting with nonnative (NNSs) to the use of conversational adjustments and differences in word frequency and speech rate. (33 references) (GLR)

Discusses personality and attitudinal attributes that are significantly related to teachers' positive computer-oriented attitudes. The role of teachers in computer-assisted instruction is considered, use of the Eysenck personality model is described, and a tentative personality model of a typical teacher who is more positive toward computer usage…

Administered questionnaires to 80 Bulgarian orienteers (cross-country racers who navigate a course) measuring extroversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, social desirability, trait anxiety, need for achievement, and locus of control. Examined the effects of sex, age, sport experience, level of sport qualification, and kind of sport specialization on…