Using the Twenty Item" Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Six Item" Extraversion and Neuroticism scales, item responses from 241 subjects were collected and intercorrelated. The resultant matrix was transformed to a matrix of correlations among the three scales. Manifest anxiety and neuroticism were found to be largely confounded and both were found…

Among the results of the study on differing occupational interests of persistors and nonpersistors are: (1) successful persisters have engineering related interests and reject Social Service Interest: (2) successful transfers have verbally expressive and leadership interest and reject technical interest. (Author)

A multiple discriminate analysis of student role orientations as related to college dropouts yielded a significant function which indicated that defaulters and successful persisters as distinguished from probation persisters and dismissals have stronger preferences for social development and vocational behavior, moderate interest in academic,…

The present results confirm the contention that the scales of a new personality inventory, the Differential Personality, exhibit to a satisfactory degree that most desirable of scale properties: factorial simplicity or homogeneity. (Author)

The results of this study on the relation of personality to vocational choice, suggests that personality patterns of occupational groups are more a function of those who enter and persist in the group than those who transfer to it. (Author)

The results of this experiment demonstrate a causal relationship (a) between the expressed accuracy of understanding and the proposal of compromises and the induction of cooperation in a negotiation situation and (b) between the expressed warmth and degree of favorableness of interpersonal attitudes, thus giving support to the efficacy of Rogerian…

The effect of attitude similarity and topic importance on attraction was studied by exposing 75 prison inmates, incarcerated for public intoxication, to varying attitudes of a psychotherapist. Subjects were more attracted to the therapist after receiving alcohol items regardless of degree of similarity expressed. (Author)

The hypothesis that attractiveness and expertness combine additively to make attractive experts more influential than unattractive ones was not supported. The hypothesis that expertness masked effects of attractiveness was supported. (Author/CJ)

Study results indicate that counseling educators should consider the possibility that counselors' and counselees' learning styles have some influence on interview behavior. The finding that impulsive and constricted counselees tended to engage in similar amounts of leading behavior suggests the need for additional research. (Author)

The different responses of introverts and extraverts to two types of helper nonverbal attending were examined. Subjects were 26 introverts and 26 extraverts, as defined by Eysenck and Eysenck's questionnaire. Introverts rated the listener higher than did extraverts, independent of his posture. (Author)

The study examines changes in assertiveness, territoriality, and personal space as a function of group assertion training. Subjects were 42 females who were assigned to either a treatment (assertion training) group or to a control group. Implications for counseling and use of ethological constructs are discussed. (Author)