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96 high and low self-accepting Ss were divided into 8 treatment groups: (a) a low group who received facilitating feedback for self-reinforcing responses; (b) a group comparable to the previous one but who also were given positive feedback on social comparison; (c) a low group who received inhibiting feedback for negative self-reinforcement responses; and (d) a group of low-control Ss. The remaining four groups were Ss high in self-acceptance; they were treated in a comparable fashion to the first four groups but instead given feedback designed to decrease their self-reinforcement rate. Ss were given the California Personality Inventory and the Berger measure of self-acceptance as well as self-ratings of creativity and intelligence before and after treatment. There were few significant changes for the post-measures following the conditioning treatment. The major outcome is questioning some hypotheses from past research concerning the relationship between self-reinforcement and self-acceptance.

While a substantial amount of clinical opinion exists in regard to the syndrome of premature and retarded ejaculation, few objective psychometric data are available. In an effort to obtain such objective information, individuals who called the Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic at the LAC-USC Medical Center seeking help for a “primary” complaint of premature or retarded ejaculation were given a psychological battery, including the Eysenck Personality Inventory, IPAT Anxiety Scale, Symptom Check List, and the MMPI. Patients with co-existing impotence were excluded, as were those individuals whose complaints were secondary to psychoses, drugs, or medical illness. The findings indicate that premature and retarded ejaculators are significantly more anxious, depressed, and evidence more general psychopathology than the control group. Retarded ejaculators scored significantly higher than premature ejaculators on only the MMPI-Af/scale, while there were no significant differences on any of the remaining 23 measures. In addition, when the entire population of patients with premature or retarded ejaculation (with the above exceptions) was assessed psychologically, the average degree of psychopathology was greater than in patients screened for significant psychopathology, marital difficulties, etc.

200 Ss judged 4 stimulus persons in 20 experimental conditions with varying amounts and categories of information given them. The greatest judging accuracy was obtained when total information input of different amounts and categories was greatest. Adding more input did not result in greater accuracy of judgment with all stimulus persons, however, and actually reduced accuracy for some stimulus persons. Further, considering the disproportionate amount of input increase necessary in order to yield small amounts of increased predictive accuracy, a question was raised concerning whether it is practically profitable to attempt to maximize predictive accuracy.