Based on ratings by classmates, counselors were dicotomized according to probability of being referred agitated or constrained clients. Counselors to whom the former were referred had higher MMPI scores on D and Pt scales and lower scores on Es scales. (Author)

Although no single Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scale was found to differentiate between subject clinical effectiveness groups, the subjects' MMPI profiles were found to predict accurately the clinical effectiveness groups to which the subjects were assigned. (Author)

Results of this study indicated that positive feedback was more accepted than the negative feedback. Females as compared to males evidenced less desire for further feedback after receiving negative feedback, while the reverse was true after receiving positive feedback. Personality feedback as compared to intellectual feedback generated a stronger…

Reviews approaches taken in the study of human behavior and psychology by assessment centers, places where different experimenters apply various diagnostic techniques to the same individuals and then meet to report their findings and collectively formulate the personality of the subject/participant. (Author/GC)

Studies Chaplin as a filmmaker and personality by analyzing his writings and background from an astrological perspective. (MH)

Replies to an article in "Human Communication Research" (v14, n4), "Item Desirability Effects in Compliance-Gaining Research: Seven Studies Documenting Artifacts" by Brant R. Burleson, Steven R. Wilson, Michael S. Waltman, Elizabeth M. Goering, Teresa K. Ely, and Bryan B. Whaley. (MS)

Administered Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to 401 adjudicated male juvenile offenders. Identified 28 MMPI scales that best described and discriminated between high and low levels of recidivism, crime severity, assault, and property offenses. Psychopathic Deviance, Amorality, Authority Problems, Social Responsibility, and…

Administered Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) to convicted child molesters at incarceration and release from prison. Pre/postincarceration scores revealed significant decreases on 5 MMPI scales and significant increases on 11 CPI scales. Respondents were reporting themselves as more…

Reviews theoretical grounds, purposes, and features of Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI) and forthcoming replacement, Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI). Explains rationale and procedure for construction of component scales and examines logic of configural or profile interpretation. Considers uses and limitations of MAPI and…

Performed a reliability generalization using 244 studies that used NEO personality scales. Reliability estimates were given in only 15% of these studies, and 44% made no mention of reliability at all. Results suggest that many researchers have an inadequate understanding of concepts of reliability. Results also suggest that NEO personality scales…

Critical thinking can be explained as an effective, organized and functional cognitive process to understand our own thoughts and other people's opinions and to improve our dispositions to express ourselves. Critical thinking is a process and also dispositions about deciding what to do or believe logically. In addition it provides the possibility…

Are clients at college counseling centers more disturbed today than they were 5, 10, or 20 years ago? Since the mid-1980s, counseling center personnel have consistently perceived student clients as more distressed or reported acutely distressed clients as more prevalent than they did 1, 3, or 5 years ago. Only 3 studies employing a systematic,…

Trait psychology implicitly assumes consistency of the personal traits. Mischel, however, argued against the idea of a general consistency of human beings. The present article aims to design a statistical procedure based on an adaptation of the pi* statistic to measure the degree of intraindividual consistency independently of the measure used.…