Using B.F. Skinner's diagnosis of our moral problems, this research attempts to provide a constructive supplement to Kohlberg's moral theory rather than to concentrate on negative criticism. Examines the cognitive and affective aspects of Kohlberg's morality. (Author/RK)

Using 463 fifteen year old girls from five girls' schools in the metropolitan area of Sydney, this study examines four aspects of the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory that has been subject to criticism, namely the terminology used in certain JEPI items, item response rate ceilings, factorial structure of the inventory, and the relationship…

Discusses the arousal system whose function makes cortical activity possible because it has become apparent that there is an optimal level of arousal for learning and cognitive functioning. Considers how this relates to the stimulus variation need in the classroom. (Author/RK)

Managers, supervisory personnel, clerical workers, and high school students were administered questionnaires which asked them to indicate whether they would discuss various work-related factors as applicants in an employment interview. A systematic tendency was found for respondents to prefer discussion of "motivators" rather than "hygiene…

240 employed adults in 35 organizations completed a 70 item questionnaire based on current value/expectancy theories of motivation and the results of two prior factor analyses of motivation items. This yielded a hierarchical structure of motivation and eight reliable subscales. Results are discussed in terms of motivation theories, validities,…

Three predictions from the model of extraversion put forward by Brebner & Cooper (1974) were tested in a simple reaction time task. What emerges is a more coherent picture of the extravert showing him to be prone to two types of S-inhibition, the one generated by feedback and when response demands are low, and dependent upon R-excitation to…

A model of the organization of interpersonal judgments, based on the hypothesis that people tend to organize their judgments in Golden Section ratios, was presented. A theory of the process of interpersonal judgment, based on the notion that people judge acquaintances using a Fibonacci-like decision rule, was then developed. A computer simulation…

The concept of psychological well-being is introduced, and scales to measure three of its different facets are described and applied to 1655 British respondents. Results from measures of positive and negative affect are compared with North American findings, and hypotheses are broadly confirmed. Two clusters of specific anxiety items are…

Describes the minimum conditions for creating the humanistic school. Humanism is based on principles that fall into three basic categories: a set of beliefs about self and the nature of social reality, a set of skills to be learned by teachers, administrators, and pupils, and a set of necessary conditions in the social system. (Author/RK)

Investigated the relationship between depression and daydreaming characteristics in a non-hospitalized sample. Use was made of self-report psychometric instruments that measure depression and aspects of depression and other activity such as mindwandering, boredom, distractibility, and curiosity. (Editor/RK)

In view of a lack of objective personality data on adjustment problems of impaired adolescents, this research attempts to determine whether significant personality differences would be reflected by the MMPI between a group of impaired and nonimpaired adolescents. (Author/RK)

1,242 subjects, in five experiments plus a pilot study, saw a series of slides depicting a single auto-pedestrian accident. These experiments investigate how information supplied after an event influences a witness's memory for that event. Results suggest that information supplied a witness after an event, whether inconsistent or misleading, is…

Assesses the influence of rehearsal on recognition reaction times for items from target lists of a length exceeding the span of immediate memory. Also determines what effect, if any, the length of the target list has on recognition latencies that involve only retrieval from inactive memory. (Author/RK)

This research evaluated the ability to fake an empirically keyed biographical inventory form under two instructional sets: (1) applicant for a specific, highly stereotyped position (salesman) and (2) applicant for a more general role designation (manager). (Author/RK)