Professional men and women (N=20) half above and below the age of 30, were signaled at random by an electronic paging device. Analyzed self-reports on seven cognitive and affective measures. Environment demonstrated a highly significant impact on respondents' reports and significant contrasts in cognitive and affective states appeared. (Author/RC)

Although the consistency of personality characteristics has been identified in groups of persons studied from infancy into young adulthood, few such studies have been able to include older adults. To investigate the stability of personality and social characteristics among young-old and old-old adults, 72 adults (51 female, 21 male) from the…

This study was undertaken to determine the cognitive preference orientation (measured by the Cognitive Preference Examination II) and Jungian personality types (measured by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI) of 283 eighth-grade students. Relationships between these two variables were predicted. It was hypothesized that introverted, intuitive…

Contends that sex differences in response to various types of humor reveal significant personality characteristics. (MH)

Two studies provide support for a model of jealousy based on self-evaluation maintenance theory. Greater jealousy was reported when the domain of a rival's achievements was also a domain of high self-relevance to the participant. Notes sex differences in the impact of relationship partners on domains of self-definition. (LSR)

It was suggested that thought changes cognitions to be more consistent with one's initial attitude direction and, therefore, results in attitude polarization. Specifically, it was predicted that polarization would be highest under thought with reality constraints absent, followed by thought with reality constraints present, followed by…

Literature suggests that females have lower initial expectancies for success than males. The antecedents of this difference are considered: (a) by examining when expectancy differences develop, and, (b) by examining cognitive factors which may underlie these differential expectancies. (Author/AM)