Presents an extensive personal space bibliography and summarizes the major findings as set forth by personal space researchers. In addition, brief mention is given to those works that have examined methodological aspects of the topic. Finally, an abbreviated critique of personal space research is presented, and an alternative research strategy is…

The reliabilities and validities of true-false and forced-choice formats in personality assessment were compared. (Author)

Scores of almost one thousand student-teachers and post-graduate students in the Faculty of Education at Edmonton on thirty key variables of personality, values, educational and social attitudes were analyzed. (Author)

This study proposed to formulate an instrument to help the adolescent make a self-evaluation, and to acquire some self-understanding. (Author)

A plea for adults to respect children's growth patterns and to realize that a child's feelings about himself will determine, in large part, his ability to cope with his world. (Author/ST)

The results of this study seem to support the usefulness of desirability judgments and personality items as vehicles for intercultural research. Findings lent support to the suggestion that the German student population has been subjected to marked cultural or generational change with regard to evaluative aspects of core personality dimensions.…

The effect of sex and level of education on authoritarianism, separately within Indian and American cultures as well as cross culturally, was tested by the California F-scale. Results suggested a very strong cultural effect. (Author/KM)

Study suggests that an individual's preferred ways of perceiving and thinking reflect an integral aspect of his personality, and that a full knowledge of the one is essential to a full understanding of the other. (Author)

According to this study, college freshmen as compared with college sophomores tend to have higher dominance and endurance needs, though their consistency scores were somewhat lower. Freshmen seem to have a greater need to influence and control the behavior of others and a greater need for hard work. Results of this study suggest that further…

Thirty-four college undergraduates, not majoring in science, participated in an innovative program in the biological sciences. The program stressed applications of biology to social problems, and emphasized emotional as well as intellectual growth. (Author)

A teacher's congeniality, understanding, and personal mannerisms can create classroom harmony and influence learning. (DS)

This article attempted to show that the methodological and metaphysical biases of situationism have seriously constrained psychology's observation base and its model of man. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the attitudes and practices toward drugs by users and nonusers at Queensborough Community College and the relationship of these attitudes and practices to selected psychosocial factors. (Author)

Results indicate that all values do not develop simultaneously but are influenced by sex, grade, and occupational group. (Editor)