Discusses the life and thought of Jacob Bronowski, producer/director of a 13-part television series entitled The Ascent of Man.'' Indicates that his work has the effect of crossing the boundaries between scientific disciplines and bridging the gap between the two cultures of science and the humanities. (CC)

Measures of student adjustment constituted the strongest predictor of language achievement. (Authors)

Internals, but not externals, used time in a manner systematically related to item difficulty. These differences in time utilization may explain why the sense of control variable, although unrelated to ability, is a predictor of achievement test scores. (Authors/CB)

This study compared performances on the MMPI of 350 college freshmen constituting three academic statuses; good, dropout, and probationary. Only a few differences are significant between good students and dropouts on any of the MMPI scales regardless of sex or race. (Author)

Bureaucratic orientation as measured by SEPS was found to correlate significantly with dogmatism, conservatism, neuroticism, and extraversion. (Authors)

Survey results of adult library use indicate that educational, family life cycle, and environmental factors, in that order of importance, affect the rate of adult library use. (DS)

The present study was designed to examine the relationship of certain personality factors to certain reading and reading related scores of children referred to a reading clinic because of presumed reading difficulties. (Authors)

Significant differences in this study were found an the Deference and Affiliation scales of the EPPS. Similarities were not accounted for by sex or socioeconomic variables. (BY)

Somindence (sober mature independence) is found in the stolid, mature, independent; and by contrast, dissofrustance (dissociative rejection of frustrating ideas) characterizes the more careful, less enthusiastic person with increased dependence on external control. (Author/MB)

Data clearly failed to support the general hypothesis that active students would be quite similar to student activists along the dimensions studied; instead, when differences were found, the results tended to group active students with passive students and differentiate both from student activists. (Authors/MB)

Addressing the neglect of work on feminine psychology, this paper proposes three research issues: duality in human nature, typology and qualitative patterning, and biological bases of personality. Such research would end the broad impoverishment of contemporary work in personality. (Author/JM)