Teaching Personality Theory: A Games Approach

This study compares the subject matter acquisition of a lecture-discussion group and a game-playing group in a graduate course in personality theory. The performance of the group which played only two personality theory games during the five-week summer session was at least as good as that of a lecture-discussion group attending the same session. An additional, unanticipated gain for the game-playing group was consistently high motivational level and esprit de corps.