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Research on 'fake bad' sets in the EPI measurement of personality was extended to 40 college students, following up work of Salas with soldiers. No significant effect of a 'fake bad' set on extraversion and lie scales was found, contrary to Salas? results, but neuroticism was significantly susceptible to faking, which confirmed the findings of Salas. Further analyses suggested that the lie scale tended to expose a malingerer's intention rather than assist in concealing it. Differences in results from the present study and that of Salas, and restrictions on the generality of faking effects, were discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: Higher order personality dimensions of extraversion-introversion and neuroticism were studied as functions of birth order in two-sib families, using 141 female subjects, with control over sex of sibling and sib age separation. No significant personality dimension variance was attributable to birth order in females. The results were considered briefly in terms of the importance of birth order, heritability questions, and the possible contribution of birth order to lower order traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study in which correlations between the extraversion (E) and neuroticism (N) scales were computed for 7 separate samples with a total of 1478 subjects. The study verifies the theoretically important independence of the personality dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism as measured by the Eysenck Personality Inventory. No significant correlations were obtained, values of the coefficients ranged from .122 to -.158, with a median r of -.004. E and N correlations computed on extreme groups constituted on the basis of age and response distortion, lie scaLe scores yielded similarly small and quite non-significant values.

Intelligence and the personality dimensions of extraversion-introversion and neuroticism were studied as a function of season of birth, the latter being divided into birth during Winter-Spring (W-S) (November-April inclusive) and Summer-Autumn (S-A) (May-October inclusive). Two hundred and thirty adolescent males, homogeneous with respect to age, occupation and socioeconomic background, were tested under controlled conditions. No differences in intelligence and personality, as measured, were found between W-S and S-A births. Little optimism was expressed for the possibility of finding such season-of-birth effects among other than severely intellectually subnormal subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]