This document explores the way in which courage, as a central virtue, and friendship, as a valued human state, have a significant place within the view of the education of character. Education of character is determined to bridge the gap between moral judgment and moral action. This paper has five sections. First, the need for character education…

Article presented an analytical summary of some of the main features of lifelong education (and the process of lifelong learning which it presumably facilitates), together with some critical review. (Author/RK)

Five personality scales administered as part of a larger study of personality correlates of children with articulation errors resulted in descriptive statistics on grade by sex samples, school effects, test-retest coefficients, and intercorrelations. (Author/KM)

Based on an MA thesis submitted to the University of Utah (Herbert).

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Assoc. (San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 29, 1967)

Concepts of existential/phenomenology philosophy more closely reflect women's experience of the world and provide a better base for a feminist science of psychology. Womens' experience includes basic cooperation, nurturance, empathy, and egalitarian morality. Logical positivist psychology discriminates against women by excluding inner experiencing…

IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND YOUTH HANDICAPPED BY SOCIAL STATUS DIFFERENCES, IT WAS NECESSARY TO REALIZE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS WERE CONTRADICTORY ATTITUDES TOWARD SELF AND OTHERS, MATERIALISTIC ATTITUDES, LOW-LEVEL ASPIRATION AND MOTIVATION, AND DIFFERENT SOCIOCULTURAL PATTERNS. THE POSITIVE ASPECTS INCLUDED SELECTIVE MOTIVATION AND CREATIVITY,…

SINCE SPEECH IS IMPORTANT TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN BEING, IT IS OFTEN FOUND THAT IMPAIRMENTS ARE FREQUENT CAUSES OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS. ON THE OTHER HAND, A GOOD GUIDE TO BEGINNING HELP INVOLVES PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION TO ESTIMATE INTELLIGENCE. ALSO A TEST OF HEARING SHOULD BE GIVEN AS WELL AS A…

Psychologists generally agree on the importance of early events in personality development, yet until now there has not been an opportunity to look at the personal lives of a group of adults over a considerable time. Subjects examined were 16 men and 44 women, parents of the subjects of the Guidance Study, a longitudinal study of the Institute of…

This study investigates the relationship between the degree of individuation in families and the personality development of adolescent family members. A subsample of 30 white, middle-class families were chosen for analysis from a larger sample of 99 families. Fifteen families from the subsample had adolescent girls who scored high, and fifteen had…

A SERIES OF STUDIES WAS CONDUCTED TO CLARIFY THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION AND TO ASSESS A COGNITIVE-DEVELOPMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF IQ-PERSONALITY CORRELATIONS. THE SPECIFIC FOCUS OF THE STUDY WAS THE RELATIONSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL MATURITY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEX-ROLE ATTITUDES. AGE-DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS IN SEX-ROLE…

This study reports the results of research on analyses of game difficulty. Predictor variables were number of rules, spaces, and pieces necessary to play a game. Criterion variables were related to the child's ability to play successfully, and numbered eight. Data were subjected to multiple regression analysis, leading to the conclusion that it is…

This booklet is divided into two parts. Part 1 discusses how personality and emotions affect one another and how one can cope with strong emotions. It also deals with how to get along with others and questions young people often ask concerning personality and emotions. Part 2 discusses human relations and how to improve relationships with others.…

The profusely illustrated booklet suggests ways for developing the personal skills necessary for individual program development for achieving personal goals. With two hypothetical characters, June and Ray, to illustrate the booklet's suggestions, methods of estimating and testing physical, emotional, and intellectual traits necessary for…

The Project on Student Development in Small Colleges is a 5-year research and action program which has studied institutional characteristics, student characteristics, attrition, and student development in 13 small colleges across the country. The results of this study on personality development indicated that personality development during college…