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The article cites the study to approach the adult female obese personality through the use of the Rorschach test. The authors' plan is (1) to determine if there are reliable and differentiating Rorschach quantitative indices which characterize the personality structure of obese women as contrasted with women within the ideal weight range, (2) to determine the degree in which these differentiating indices are present, and (3) to attempt to reconstruct a pattern of psychic-economic distribution of personality energy typical of the personality structure of obese women. Later papers will treat nuclear conflicts and crucial relationships in the personality of obese women as reflected in other projective techniques.

The article examines the Sargent Test. Sargent has recently made an attempt to incorporate the principles of projective methods into a group paper-and-pencil personality test, thus combining the administrative advantages of a written test with the diagnostic value of a projective technique. The theory and principles which lie behind this Test of Insight into Human Motives are reviewed. The present study seeks to investigate the Sargent test to further examine the reliability of the test; and to develop a simpler scoring system. The subjects were women from the beginning psychology classes at the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1945, who volunteered for "a simple written experiment in connection with the study of group tendencies in college students."

This article presents an investigation whose purpose is to determine whether personality changes occur in a college population as a function of an efficient reading course. From a sample of 52 male undergraduate students who voluntarily applied for admission to a non-credit reading efficiency course, 45 admitted students composed the experimental group and 7 non-admitted students constituted the control group. The course, which consists of lectures, tachistoscopic training and practice on reading papers, constitutes one hour of the student's time, five days a week for a period of six consecutive weeks. The total sample was administered the California Psychological Inventory before the course commenced.