Administered a battery of personality inventories to violent (N=30) and nonviolent (N=30) youthful offenders, factor analyzed the results and compared the group on factor scores. Results indicated the emergence of two factors: Hostility/Neuroticism and Psychoticism versus Extraversion and showed no significant difference between the two groups on…

Previous studies have not demonstrated hypothesized link between Machiavellianism (interpersonally manipulative behavior) and psychopathy. Results from two studies using college student samples revealed that High Machs obtained significantly higher Psychopathy scores than did Low Machs, and Mach V totals for Primary Psychopaths were significantly…

Administered University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale, Freiburg Personality Inventory, and other questions to 247 West German college students. Loneliness was found to be correlated with several personality subscales (psychosomatic complaints, depression, and neuroticism; negative correlation with social skills, self-esteem,…

Surveyed 85 students, 72 medical patients, and 66 state employees to assess the relationships between personality dimensions and child-rearing. Results indicated that parents of extraverts were performance-oriented and stimulating, parents of high psychoticism scorers were unstimulating and unaffectionate, and parents of high neuroticism scorers…

Examined amount of variation in subjects' judgments of same behavior. Subjects observed target persons on videotape and rated both targets and themselves on five dimensions. For three dimensions there was significantly more variance in group's target ratings than in group's self-ratings. Variation suggests that low personality correlations should…

Administered Francis scale of attitude towards Christianity and the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to 3,228 11- to 16-year-olds. Found positive relationship between religiosity and lie scale scores. Examined relationship in light of three theories that religious people are less mature, more socially conforming, or simply bigger liars.…

Explored the relationship between Machiavellianism and preference for business occupations in 60 Canadian students majoring in business or arts. Results confirmed that both business and nonbusiness High Machs were characterized by emotional stability. Business High Machs were significantly more extraverted, reinforcing the popular perception of…

Compared high-machiavellian and non-machiavellian college students in two studies. Results showed no differences between high- and non-machiavellian students for neuroses, psychoses, depression or adjustment. Further, non-machiavellians who received descriptions of high-machiavellians consistently produced valid representations of…

Examined the way male undergraduates (N=48) evaluated an ingratiating/non-ingratiating person, particularly when the evaluations were not the target of his compliments. Results revealed that the person's ingratiating versus non-ingratiating style significantly influenced subjects' attraction and evaluation toward him. The non-ingratiating person…

Studied the influence of sex-typed trait description on ratings of likeableness. Results showed female students (N=90) rated masculine role descriptions less favorably than female or androgynous descriptions regardless of gender ascribed to the stimulus person. Males (N=90) were influenced by gender appropriateness. (WAS)

Findings suggest that extroverts are more likely to be susceptible to behavioral contagion, i.e., spontaneous imitation of another's behavior, than introverts. (Author)

Investigated relationship between critical flicker fusion (CFF) thresholds and five personality characteristics (alienation; social nonconformity; discomfort, expression, and defensiveness) under three auditory stimulus conditions (quiet, noise, meaningful verbal stimuli). Results from 60 college students revealed that auditory stimulation and…

Female alcohol and drug addicts (N=86) entering treatment took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Women affirming the item "I believe women ought to have as much sexual freedom as men" were younger, had better visuospatial reasoning skills, and scored less pathologically on MMPI measures of depression, neurotic…

Studied discipline, social competence, sophistication, and religiosity in relation to eating, drinking, and smoking behaviors in young women. Supported discipline's general relevance to a broad range of behaviors. Social competence, sophistication, and religiosity moderated discipline's form of expression. The personality variables had stronger…

In a projective test of the golden section hypothesis, 24 high school students rated themselves and 10 comic strip characters on basis of 12 bipolar constructs. Overall proportion of cartoon figures which subjects assigned to positive poles of constructs was very close to golden section. (Author/NB)