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The article discusses the personalities developed by 7SE children due to lack of affection. It says that 7SE children fall into gluttony as they try to compensate sensory sharpness with physical pleasures to cover their deficiency. It adds that they strive to affirm superiority in a covert manner and are unable to confront people as competition or violence turns them off. Moreover, they are sensitive to pain and pleasure and thus they escape and divert attention to avoid undesired emotions.

The article discusses the unsound 8IE personalities, wherein, children with this type of personalities encounter ridicule, abuse and outrage and try to control their behaviors through violence. It says that 8IE children reinforce their self-assurance by increasing their anger, asserting their power and contradicting systemic limitations of their wills. It explores the identities of 8IE children such as toughness, tyranny, and materialism.

This article focuses on processes of gender role learning and the development of a sense of identification in boys and girls. Girls and boys develop different relational capacities and senses of self as a result of growing up in a family in which women mother. These gender personalities are reinforced by differences in the identification processes of boys and girls that also result from women's mothering. Differing relational capacities and forms of identification prepare women and men to assume the adult gender roles which situate women primarily within the sphere of reproduction in a sexually unequal society.

Chapter 9 of the book "Prejudice and Your Child," by Kenneth Brown is presented. It discusses how American children can be saved from the ill effects of racial discrimination through a changes in the pattern of community experiences that are provided for them. The author explains the need to implement desegregation in schools and institutions in order to lessen the effects of racial discrimination that he claims distort and debase the personality development of children.

Chapter 4 of the book "Prejudice and Your Child," by Kenneth Clark is presented. It presents the behavioral patterns of a prejudiced authoritarian personality of individuals, discusses the influences in the development of this personality in American children and explores the role of racial discrimination in social learning. Arguments are presented how racial prejudice develops in white children moral conflicts that allegedly inhibit both their social progress and that of Negro children.