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The article investigates the nature of male figure drawings produced by 100 institutionalized mentally retarded non-homosexual males, and to compare the male figure drawings by 37 mentally retarded homosexual males with those produced by an equivalent group of non-homosexuals. A secondary purpose was to ascertain which sex was drawn first by the various subjects. All of the male figure drawings were analyzed in terms of frequency according to certain predetermined characteristics. It informs that most drew their own sex first. High heels and eyelashes appeared significantly more in their drawings than in those by non-homosexuals.

This article investigates the possibility of variations in behavioral consistency as a function of diagnostic type and gender on two conformity tasks. Male and female paranoid schizophrenics, manic-depressives, and normals were used as subjects for the study. Behavioral inconsistency frequently constitutes one of the most basic criteria by which to evaluate the presence of mental disorder because it affects perceptions of stability and predictability of behavior. Male groups were composed largely of laborers, although there were a few college graduates in all-male groups.

The article cites a study which examines pupillary response and sexual interest. The article presents an experiment that was designed to test whether 10 male and 10 female undergraduate students in psychology at the University of South Carolina would respond differentially to pictures of semi-nude males and Imitates. The students were not informed of the purpose of the experiment. The results indicate a tendency for the male students to dilate more to the semi-nude female pictures and for females to display the opposite pattern. However, for the clothed pictures, the males dilated more to male pictures.

The article discusses a revised deterioration formula for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. In his most recent text concerned with the WAIS, D. Wechsler presents a formula for calculating mental deterioration which differs somewhat from that presented in the Wechsler-Bellevue Form I. The WAIS formula was apparently changed as a result of the changed conditions of standardization of the WAIS, which, unlike the W-B I, was given to a nationwide sample instead of to a restricted New York City norm group, included many more cases in each age group, and equalized the number of cases from both sexes. A critique of Wechsler's deterioration formula for the WAIS is offered because it neglected the important matter of significant sex differences in intellectual abilities and because it did not make optimal use of the differential test score method. Two revised formulae were devised, one for males and one for females. The female formula was much more successful than Wechsler's in maximizing deterioration slope.

The article discusses the clinical scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The scales were developed so that items marked in the direction characteristic of a particular diagnostic group were scored plus for that scale, while items marked in the direction characteristic of the normal group were scored zero. Therefore, the higher the total score on any scale the more deviant the performance from normality. The article compares the Adjective Check List Heilbrun Need Scale scores of 26 college females with low points on the Depression scale of the MMPI to the scores of 20 college females with high points on this scale.

The article presents a study related to the psychology of personal preferences. The factor loadings suggest that successful sublimation is based more on anal traits in females, but on a mixture of oral and anal characteristics in males. Aggressive masculinity is loaded with anal items in both sexes. Femininity in males seems pretty definitely related to oral trends, but in females there is a suggestion that anal influences are related to immunity. The principal axes solution for factorization seems to give slightly more meaningful results in both sexes than the centroid method, but agreement between the two methods is high. However, much remains to be done in determining significance levels for factor data. Until this is achieved, factor analysis will also have to be considered projective technique.

The article informs that a factor analysis of schizophrenic ratings on the hospital adjustment scale. One hundred hospitalized schizophrenic males were employed in this study. All subjects were chronically ill, and no attempt was made to select them as representative of the hospital. Rather, they were chosen on the basis of the availability of the HAS's. The many items of the scale, 90 in all, made it necessary to restrict the analysis to a portion of them. Thirty-five items were selected from the total number so that they represented a sampling from each of the subsections of the scale and included all the items of the scale which seemed to the investigator to have uniqueness.

The article informs that perhaps the most fruitful, as well as deeply tapping, aspect of the Rorsehach procedure resides in the human movement responses. This is particularly true if the responses are accompanied by an actual experience of movement expressed in the concept of a displacement of blot area. In the research project involving a study of different types of sex offenders, the writers felt that they had available a unique opportunity to test out theory empirical hypotheses on two groups who represent opposite ends of the continuum which runs from over-assertion to crippling lack of assertion. One hundred and six men imprisoned in Sing Sing Prison for an illegal overt sexual act comprised the subject population.

The article informs that a study of sex offenders' at Sing Sing Prison, the subjects customarily receive an extensive psychological examination as part of their clinical appraisal. Since the self-concept and body image are integral factors in motivational dynamics, and projective drawings seem especially suited to tap these personality components, a series of studies focusing on the H-T-P's of these men was planned. Clinical experience suggests that it is easier for a subject to attribute more conflicted or emotionally disturbing negative traits and attitudes to the drawn Tree than to the drawn Person because the former is "less close to home" as a self-portrait. The study group included 84 males at Sing Sing Prison. All of them were imprisoned for an illegal overt sexual act or an illegal act with sexual motivations or components.

The article discusses a note on sex differences on the Wechsler-Bellevue tests. The subtests and IQ's of the Wechsler-Bellevue for 145 males and 90 females, all white outpatients at a psychiatric clinic, were compared. Of the 14 comparisons, seven differences were significant at the .01 level at least and four more at the .05 level or less, all favoring the males. While investigating the relationship between Rorschach's Experience Balance and intellectual functioning as sampled by the D. Wechsler, sex differences on that test were noticed and judged worthy of reporting since little information of this type is available.

The article states that in 1958, H.C. Quay and D.R. Peterson reported a brief scale for the differentiation of delinquent and nondelinquent males. In several cross-validational samples of American boys, approximately 67 per cent of the subjects (Ss) were correctly identified by the measure. The applicability of such scales to other populations, however, is always open to question, and the present study was undertaken to determine whether similar differentiation could be achieved between delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents in Japan.