Personal construct systems and love styles

The present study explored the relationships between individuals' personal construct systems regarding romantic relationships and their love styles. One hundred subjects (50 male and 50 female) completed a questionnaire containing the Love Attitudes Scale and were also administered George Kelly's repertory technique, which was used to evaluate subjects' threat, perceptual shift, actualization, and cognitive complexity. Results revealed theoretically predictable relationships among the measures. For instance, subjects who were more erotic were also more actualized, and manic lovers showed greater perceptual shift. The personal construct approach offers rich insight into aspects of intimate relationships.     

A Comparison of the Intelligence and Personality of Moon-Child Albino and Control Cuna Indians

Abstract

(Greene, E. B. Measurements of Human Behavior. New York: Odyssey Press, 1952. Pp. 790.) Reviewed by Robert M. Allen     

A test of ve-theories of risk and the effect of the central limit theorem

There are several theories of risk which indicate that risk could be a function only of variance and expectation. A transformation on odds or skewness was constructed which left the variance and expectation of a gamble unchanged. Perceived risk was clearly a function of this transformation as well as variance and expectation, even under multiple play in which the effect of the central limit theorem modifies the effect of skewness but it remains a relevant variable.     

A method for the study of interstimulus similarity

A generalized method for collecting data on interstimulus similarity is presented and its special cases evaluated by use of information theory. A method of analyzing the data by the Unfolding Technique is presented which permits the study of the latent attribute structure underlying the similarity of stimuli for a single individual. This study was carried out under Office of Naval Research Contract Nonr 374 (00) NR 041-011.     

A factorial study of number ability

In order to investigate certain hypotheses concerning the nature of number ability, and, secondarily, the nature of perceptual speed, a battery of thirty-four tests was given to 223 Chicago high school seniors and the data were factored by the centroid method. Seven primary factors were identifiable upon rotation. Several deductions are made relative to the interpretation of the factors and relative to the consistency of the data with the hypotheses which were to be tested. I wish to express my great appreciation of the aid of Professor L. L. Thurstone whose generosity made this study possible. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the aid of Mr. Ledyard Tucker in the use of the I.B.M. machines for obtaining the intercorrelations and the centroid factor loadings, and to both him and Mr. Harold Bechtoldt for aid in the testing of subjects.