While certain forms of sex behavior may serve as a clue to the existence of mental illness, care must be taken not to view such behavior outside the overall context of a person's particular life situation, since sex behavior is a reflection of the totality of human existence. (Author)

Compares hospitalized tuberculosis patients with informative and uninformative physicians as to their use of library books. Finds that the two groups did not differ in general reading, but that those with uninformative physicians tended to seek out books about tuberculosis and its treatment more often. (MB)

The work described in this paper views the Protestant Ethic as a dispositional variable and attempts to characterize its psychological meaning in terms of its relationship with other personality variables and with occupational interests. (Author)

While depression often interferes with sexual feelings, the author suggests that sexual feelings and sexual activity can be used to help prevent or overcome depression. (BY)

The author contends that the capacity to be seductive can be utilized in constructive ways to enhance a loving relationship, or in neurotic ways to oversome doubts about one's capabilities. (Author)

The results indicated that significant main effects for family size and sex indicated that Ss with smaller families showed lower need for approval and that females showed higher n App. Ordinal position was not a significant source of variance, however; these three family structure variables were found to be interacting. (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)

Each of six patients saw each of four therapists twice. Each of four variables was scored separately for patient and therapist for each interview. Results indicate that therapist behaviors were not the result of a trait," of a given tendency to be empathic, or a consistently applied therapeutic technique, but rather were very substantially…

This paper presents a review of behavioristic principles that could be applied to the classroom. Techniques included are: (1) classroom reinforcements; (2) the teacher as a researcher; (3) desensitization. While behaviorism is not the complete answer, it does explain child behavior in terms that teachers should find useful. (Author/KJ)