This study attempts to assess the effects of ethnicity on educational achievement. (Author)

Rokeach's value survey and Maxhover's Figure Drawing Tests were administered to two groups of college students. Subjects were then given bogus personality profiles. They were equally likely to accept positive and negative personal evaluations irrespective of whether the tests on which they were purportedly based were scored and interpreted'' by a…

Increasing frequency of marijuana use was found to be significantly related to increased creativity, adventuresomeness, internal sensation novelty seeking and impulsivity, and decreased authoritarianism. No differences were noted in manifest anxiety among user groups, but heavier marijuana users earned lower grades in school. (Author)

Examines ways in which personality factors interact to influence academic achievement. (Author)

The present study examined the influence of memory codes varying in meaningfulness and retrievability and cumulative rehearsal on retention of observationally learned responses over increasing temporal intervals. (Editor)

This study examines a neglected area: the relationship between personality and academic achievement for school children in a non Western culture. (Editor)

This present study is an attempt to investigate the extent to which knowledge of results in various forms (true, none, and false) may modify aesthetic judgment in "typical" (with respect to aesthetic judgment) students. (Author)

In this paper an effort is made to seek within John W. Atkinson's own thinking on achievement motivation a more parsimonious explanation of the assumed curvilinearity between motive strength and performance. (Author/RK)

Subjects stratified by ability and extroversion initially achieved concept attainment in homogeneous (all introverts or all extroverts) or heterogeneous (one-half of the members extroverts) personality groups. Concepts were attained individually in a subsequent transfer stage. (Authors/JA)

A study was designed to examine further the psychometric relationships between the Marlowe-Crown Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS) and a Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scale in order to affirm or deny the meaningfulness of pairing these two personality measures. The relationships between these measures was considered to be of sufficiently high…

Based on work of Herzberg and associates (1959), a pi-polar measure of work orientation vs. hygienic orientation was constructed. Validity is shown through correlation with other measures of work motivation, personality measures, values, and abilities. The new measure is also correlated with supervisor's ratings of how long it will take newly…

The personality constructs of self-esteem, self-reinforcement, and locus of control were found to be related in a sample of college students. (ST)