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)

Spontaneous thematic play behavior in children is investigated. Environmental prerequisites of play and possible functions of play in cognitive and personality development are discussed. Whether modelling is a prerequisite for thematic play, and the relationship between level of play and creativity test performance in children are assessed. (DP)

The effects of attention to symbolic presentation of contingent rewards, in the form of slide-presented images, on children's ability to wait for the delayed reward were investigated. Attention to the symbolic contingent rewards greatly increased the duration of the children's delay of gratification. (Author/KM)

It was shown that when a highly anxious student performs a task with a confederate, his performance is lowered and that peers may induce anxiety in others when they (peers) complete a task more quickly. (Author/KM)

Anthropologists have tended to look at and describe those aspects of American Indian life in the Southwest which could be termed aboriginal to the neglect of the total picture of Indian life as it actually is. (FF)

The results of this study indicate a low level support for the theoretical position that people work at jobs appropriate to their personality orientations. (Author)