Reprints from: Thomas J. Cottle, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

Article from TRAINING TECHNOLOGY, v1 n1 pS29-S31, Sep 1969, a supplement to EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

The theories of Kerlinger and Eysenck on the nature of the dimensions underlying social attitudes are discussed. Integrating principles from both theories, an alternative approach to the issue, is suggested and tested on the domain of attitudes toward education in relation to personality. (Author/JKS)

Unless conjoined with certain desires, reason cannot move an agent to act. The article shows the conditions under which reasons for deciding on an action become reasons for action, explains the necessity of desire for possessing reasons, and explains a schema to analyze certain character traits pertinent to moral education. (SB)

A comparison was made of the ratings given by mothers of 15 Down's syndrome children on the Carey Infant Temperament Questionnaire (ITQ) and the Fullard, McDevitt, and Carey Toddler Scale (TS). Results showed that infants rated as difficult in temperament on the ITQ were rated easier in temperament two years later on the TS. (RH)

William L. Shirer, author of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, discusses a wide variety of subjects, including the personalities of Roosevelt and Hitler, why the Germans succumbed to Nazism, McCarthyism in the United States, and the heroic resistance of the Russians to German invasion. (CS)

From a study of 13 gifted adolescents, two cases provide support for the concept of a special motivation associated with breadth and depth of intellectual competency, evenness of functioning across modalities, consistency in ratings of personality characteristics, and specificity of personality profile characteristics. (SB)

Utilizing 182 subjects, this study determined the concurrent validity between the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) index of anxiety and scores on the IPAT Anxiety Scale. The IPAT and the AVA index of anxiety seem essentially to measure the same construct of basic anxiety. (Author/PN)

Definitions of introversion and various suggested school practices are provided in the hope that these valuable members of society can "become what they are capable of becoming." Well-meaning teachers and parents try to mold these youths into socially outgoing individuals without understanding their deep-seated feelings and motivations.…

Investigated the concurrent validity of three measures of death anxiety in undergraduate students. Results showed significant intercorrelations among the three scales; only one scale (Templer) differentiated first-born and only-children from later-born children. The former had higher death anxiety scores. (Author)

The Megargee and Dorhout classificatory rules were applied to 181 MMPI profiles from inmates at a Level 4 Federal Correctional Institution. Fifty of these inmates were retested and reclassified. Only 14 of these 50 inmates retained their original type designation upon retesting. (Author)

Despite the disadvantages of overemphasizing single components in research endeavors, studies in the area of social skills generally have been restricted to assertion. Two experiments were conducted to demonstrate social skills other that assertion. A case was made for diversifying future study among social skills with explicated research. (Author)

Recent methodological advances regarding self-concept theory are presented. Using junior high school subjects and multiple indicators of subject-specific, area, and general self-concept, support was found for a multifaceted, hierarchical interpretation. Results point to the causal predominance of self-concept over achievement. (Author/GK)