Twenty-one judges from each of three clinical experience levels judged 90 MMPI profiles as being either neurotic or psychotic. Judges receiving feedback after each trial achieved a higher accuracy rate than judges receiving no feedback. (Author)

The "nonzero sum" noncooperative Prisoner's Dilemma game was used to study marital conflict. Among the results were that: (1) personality characteristics were more predictive of conflict behavior for wives while person perception characteristics were more predictive for husbands; and (2) both sexes tended to exhibit conflict behavior. (Author)

Among the results of the study on differing occupational interests of persistors and nonpersistors are: (1) successful persisters have engineering related interests and reject Social Service Interest: (2) successful transfers have verbally expressive and leadership interest and reject technical interest. (Author)

The appropriate way to improve college teaching is not to spurn traditional methods, but to integrate new techniques with the old methods. (RA)

The results of this study which investigated several personality attributes of 140 vocational rehabilitation clients in relation to their locus of control, showed that internals and externals showed significant mean differences on their ability to work with others, cooperation, self reliance, work tolerance, and other factors. (Author)

This article summarizes the theory of early recollections in a way that suggests its adaptation to current practice in counseling and psychotherapy. (Author)

Utilizing 182 subjects, this study determined the concurrent validity between the Activity Vector Analysis (AVA) index of anxiety and scores on the IPAT Anxiety Scale. The IPAT and the AVA index of anxiety seem essentially to measure the same construct of basic anxiety. (Author/PN)

A table is provided and described for prorating Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales when the entire Form R has not been completed. Good concordance of profile types was found for 300 and 350 completed questions. Interpretations based on 200 items may be suspect. (Author)

The popular factor analytic procedure of putting unities in the main diagonal and retaining all factors with an eigenvalue greater than one is criticized with respect to the number of factors retained and resultant estimates of common variance. Ways of avoiding these difficulties are discussed. (JKS)

Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) was used to discriminate counselors rated as highly effective, as average, or as ineffective. Results indicated significant correlations between tested personality characteristics and rated job performances. Employment level, sex, age, certification, and degree status were of no significance in predicting…

This study compared four groups of homosexuals and heterosexuals matched on age, educational level, and verbal intelligence on nine measures of creativity. Homosexuals were not found to be more creative. Presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Montreal, 1973. (Author)

It is argued that a behavioral model for treatment of children with behavior problems emphasizes precise, detailed definition of problem areas, and the careful monitoring of behavior before, during and after treatment. (MS)