Compared persons who attended career workshops and those who registered but did not attend. Interviews with nonattenders showed 45 percent had forgotten or felt discouraged, 38 percent gave environmental reasons, and 17 percent indicated they had already met their goals. (JAC)

A total of 114 infants at three age levels (11, 18, and 28 weeks) were rated by their mothers on a termperament questionnaire and subjected to a habituation procedure. Results suggest that subject loss in habituation studies may be the result of nonrandom individual difference factors and not just the result of temporary fluctuations in state.…

Comparisons of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale-Revised and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised were made in a sample of male delinquents to determine whether they would show differences in the degree to which the P>V sign occurred on them. A larger split between mean Verbal and mean Performance IQ was found on the WISC-R than on the WAIS-R.…

Forecasts of every conceivable type are made through a sequence of brain activities in which all brain areas interact. The forecasts, however, are warped and distorted by the personality of the forecaster. (RM)

Compared social and demographic statistics and self-concept in 50 delinquent females (25 prostitutes and 25 nonprostitutes). Results indicated early sexual intercourse and a positive physical self-image were related to prostitution. (JAC)

Compared the family relationships of 80 young adult children of Holocaust survivors and 183 children of similar non-Holocaust families. Confirmed the hypothesis that survivor families are more closely engaged than other families. Children of survivors more often described themselves as protective of their parents. (JAC)

Assessed personality and background features of men in female-dominated professions by comparing 54 men employed in atypical professions with 63 men employed in sex-typical fields. Results showed that the men, by virtue of having entered female-dominated professions, have common personality and background factors which differentiate them from…

Examined self-esteem in three groups of 25 adults with or without a criminal history, who completed the Self Esteem Inventory. Results showed people with three or more convictions have a lower sense of self-esteem than those with no criminal history. (JAC)

A pilot study was made of 1) whether distinctive patterns of behavior exist for students of different learning characteristics and 2) whether or not and the degree to which the Individually Prescribed Instruction system succeeds in adapting its instructional procedures to these behavior patterns. (JY)

The attitudes of long-term collaborators on research publications about the negotiation of substantive differences of opinion were studied. Long-term collaborators were those who had co-authored publications with another academic for 10 years or more. Multiple sources of data collected from both members of 12 collaborative pairs included…

Although there has been much research about the relationship of learning and performance and individual differences in learning style, there has been little written about how to diagnose the styles. The author presents a theoritical understanding of learning styles and suggests assessment questions that a counselor can use in observing students…

A multivariate analysis of judgments of desirability by 150 judges of 566 MMPI items uncovered 13 judgmental dimensions of psychopathology. (Author)

The concept transcendence" as a fundamental category for interpreting human experience and some of the relationships of this concept to the process of education are discussed. (DB)

Author argues that simplistic and/or heuristic approaches to the Tucker and Messick model (an individual differences model for multidimensional scaling, 1963) are often inadequate. (Author/CB)