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The article presents the author's insights regarding the journal "Personnel Psychology," considering its previous issues. The author states that in the first issue of "Personnel Psychology," the journal's prospects were discussed. The author also mentions that in the first volume of the journal, there is a report regarding the intelligence of policemen in Detroit, Michigan who scored higher compared to the sergeants. The author adds that "Personnel Psychology" will not anymore publish reports on personnel psychology research without deeply advancing on space needed to keep readers informed on modern thinking.

The article focuses on the fourth annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching which was held from February 23-24, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan. The first day session of the meeting was held in Room A of the Masonic Temple at 9:30 A.M., and a program of ten papers, as given in the official program, was presented. The second day session of the meeting was in the form of a symposium. The general theme of the symposium was "An Integrated Program of Science Teaching for the Grades of the Elementary and Secondary Schools."

The article reports on the need for a re-evaluation, leading to the re-emphasis, redirection and modification by strengthening and extending materials used in areas of science important in the understanding of aircraft. Science implications in the study of flying in relation to the atmosphere include the gases that compose the atmosphere and the decrease in air pressure as one ascends the atmosphere. An outline in science for Grades 1-6 used in elementary schools in Detroit, Michigan is presented. Science teachers should direct science work so that children will gain an understanding in science that will help them live in an air age.

Evaluates the growth assessment standards in infants in Detroit, Michigan. Occurrence of deviations during birth to three months; Effect of curvature on the percentage of deviations; Insignificance of sex differences in the type of deviations.

Interview data collected from a sample of 210 persons in Detroit, aged 60 to 94, were analyzed. A series of twelve items was utilized as a measure of four types of evaluation of everyday life. The main hypothesis tested was that relative isolation (desolation) as reflected in becoming widowed or divorced, rather than absolute isolation, which includes the widowed, divorced, and the single, is related to negative evaluations. On the whole, the desolate (widowed and divorced) were found to be more negative than the nondesolate (single and married), with long-term, widowed desolates approximating nondesolates in their evaluations. A distinction between positive and negative desolation, and the anticipation of becoming desolate are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on the sixth annual meeting of the National Student Sociological Conference to be held on December 29, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Society. The aim is to exchange ideas of outstanding students of Sociology, as well as to provide an interesting program consisting of the presentation and discussion of student papers and research projects. As part of the program, a student luncheon and meeting for the selection of next year's officers will be held. All students attending and registered in the conference will be eligible to take part.

The article presents a cross-validated research regarding the personality and behavior of mediators in labor disputes. The study was first made in New York in 1955, wherein 64 persons were employed as raters of mediators, and was repeated in Detroit, Michigan where 41 raters have participated. The raters were comprised of various labor-related people including trade union officials, management lawyers, and colleagues of mediators. The article also describes the results of an evaluation made to answer four topics including the quality of the rating by colleagues, the degree of closeness among the aspects of mediators' behavior, and the underlying factor structure of such aspects.

This article seeks to explore the concept of urban renewal and its varying effects on existing and emerging racial patterns in the large metropolitan communities. Urban renewal may be defined broadly as a joint local and Federal governmental program of financing, planning, and implementation to reconstitute the cities so as to make them physically more habitable. Bearing in mind then that the renewal process and its effects occur within an existing socio-cultural and physical matrix, the significant characteristics and trends of the metropolitan community are given. The characteristics and trends noted in this article are of Detroit, Michigan, thirteen years after the close of World War II. The conclusions arrived at are valid for other cities only to the extent that the characteristics and trends, as well as the specific urban renewal activities and programs, which will also be described, are similar in these other communities.

This article presents the minutes of the National Council for Elementary Science business meeting held in Detroit, Michigan on February 11, 1951. The business meeting was called to order in the English Room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, February 11, 1951, by Acting President, Julian Greenlee. After a preliminary discussion of the agenda, the minutes of the 1950 business session were read. It was recommended that the names of persons referred to in the minutes be written uniformly. The secretary was instructed to make the necessary changes. With this correction, the minutes were approved. George Mallinson, coordinator of the State Representatives Program, presented a report of the work he had done in selecting state representatives and in stimulating action in the states. It was agreed that a real and significant advance had been made by Mr. Mallinson in this phase of the NCES program.

In the lower class there are environmental pressures to modify conventional middle-class values and attitudes. There are also social pressures to conform to the conventional patterns. These social pressures point to one source of variability in lower-class attitude, toward "deviant" behavior. The hypothesis tested is: The greater the pressure upon a group so adhere to conventional values, the lower the likelihood that members of the group will normatively accept "deviant" patterns of behavior. This hypothesis is confirmed for data on Trinidad and Detroit on nonlegal marriage, but not for the data on premarital sexual intercourse. The complementary nature of the data on nonlegal marriage and on premarital sexual intercourse is discussed, as well as related data on attitudes toward illegitimacy in Detroit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]