This article presents a critical examination of the literature concerning schooling effects on individual personality development. Current knowledge about the subject is analyzed, and specific areas requiring the attention of researchers are pointed out. (Author/EB)

Academic departments exert a powerful influence on students by recruitment of distinctive personality types into academic disciplines, and by a socialization process in which departments reward students for the display of attitudes in accordance with the norms of their disciplines. This study examined the differential patterns of student growth…