Developed a true-false scale to measure social fear, using procedures to maximize reliability and minimize response set bias (N=910). Interviews with selected subjects (N=44) confirmed that the scale measures social fear, and the scale was found to correlate with previously developed schizotypy scales (N=252). (Author/JAC)

Study compares performance on MMPI Mini-Mult inventory of black versus white juvenile delinquents of similar socioeconomic level, family background, grade level, and I.Q. The fact that there were no significant differences along racial lines indicates "that (this test) can be used to assess personality characteristics of both racial groups…

Discussion about teaching to psychology students the Watson and Rayner study in 1920 on fear of rats. (ND)

The California Psychological Inventory includes a masculinity femininity measure, Fe. Although the test author suggests that Fe is positively related to intelligence for females but negatively for males, a review of the literature fails to substantiate this claim. Correlation of Fe and intellectual measures is low in magnitude and is not different…

A course has been developed in Britain, and also tried in the U.S.A. and Canada, referred to as Modern Management Dynamics. It is a personneldevelopment and training course using pre-test, post-test questionnaires to measure and develop the extent of psychological knowledge of personnel in industrial, commercial and government work. (DS)

To determine the effect of chronic marihuana smoking on cognitive functions, personality traits, and social values, a group of heavy marihuana smokers was compared with a matched control group. (Author)

Second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children were tested on a multiple-classification task to investigate the relationship between age and observational learning. (Editor)

Nine-, eleven-, and thirteen-year-old children participated in a conformity situation requiring the judgment of the louder of two successively presented tones. (Editor)

Memory for the spacing of two events was investigated in an incidental learning'' situation. (Author)

Research supported by a grant from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Reprints of article available from J. Dennis Nolan, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210. (DS)

A scholarship program for promising disadvantaged students in private secondary schools was evaluated through interviews, faculty reports, and testing in a two year follow-up of 82 boys. (Author)

Identifies the motive to avoid success as an internal psychological representative of the dominant societal stereotype which views competence, independence, competition, and intellectual achievement as qualities basically inconsistent with femininity, even though positively related to masculinity and mental health. (Author/JM)

Significant correlations were obtained between the language comprehension scores of the children and both the quality of the task directed to them and the way in which the nursery was organized. (Authors)

Explores the semantic differential structure beyond the Evaluation, Potency, and Activity (E, P, A) dimensions. (MB)

Words and other verbal stimuli are processed as phonological sequences having a characteristic beginning-end-middle structure. They are not processed as invariant units, but are coded as sets of distinctive features, the coding being controlled, at least partly, by the context in which it takes place. (AN)