Forty male undergraduates were assessed in a personality assessment session and a hypnosis session. The personality traits studied were repressive style and adaptive regression, while the transitory variable was mood prior to hypnosis. Hypnotizability was a significant interactive function of repressive style and mood, but not of adaptive…

The study investigated the generality of perceptual accuracy across persons and responses and also investigated the reliability of accuracy scores. Results support the concept of a global ability to perceive others. (Author)

This study investigated the developmental trends in the personal values systems of elementary school students. The Values Inventory for Children was used as the measurement basis. (DP)

A review of five interrelated studies showed that certain preselected SVIB occupational scales were indicative of life styles related to accident incurrence. The hypothetical formulation underlying these studies was that vocational interest scores reflect enduring personal characteristics. (Author)

This study proposes a social-psychological hypothesis of test faking which postulates that faking involves the enacting of a social role appropriate to the given testing situation. Subtle manipulations of the test-taking environment, designed to induce subjects to adopt given social roles, produced substantial role-specific changes in test scores.…

Results of an examination given under two levels of anxiety are discussed in their assessment of relationships between trait anxiety, transitory anxiety, mood, and performance. (Author/KM)

Authors were devoted to the interpretation and elaboration of George Kelly's psychology of personal constructs, which explained total human behavior in terms of the related contexts in which people expect events to occur. Kelly's theory and applications for education and psychotherapy were described. (Editor/RK)

A nonmetric multidimensional analysis is used to identify the subscale structure of a creativity inventory. The instrument used assesses attitudes, interests, motivations, values, and other personality and biographical matters which characterize creative individuals. (Author)

A bibliography on personality traits of athletes. (PB)

In this study, it was found that students select counselors on the basis of certain personality traits rather than on that person's educational training in the area of guidance and counseling. (JS)

Basing hypotheses on interpretations of 12 personality factors most replicated in 10 past researches with children, this experiment sets up about eight subtests as specific markers for each. (Editor)

This study attempted to determine whether the variables of recent life crises and particular data of the self-concept are at least descriptive of the cancer patient and may serve to distinguish him from members of other groups. (Author)

Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (San Francisco, August 1967). Research supported by National Science Foundation, Grant GS-1093.