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Mara L. Southern
Researcher at San Jose State University
Publications - 7
Citations - 51
Mara L. Southern is an academic researcher from San Jose State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality & Cognitive development. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications receiving 50 citations.
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Personality characteristics of very bright adults.
Mara L. Southern,Walter T. Plant +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe personality characteristics of very bright adults and show that bright adults are more likely to be introverted than introverted ones, while being less likely to seek extracurricular activities.
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Decade Differences in Personality of Junior College and University Freshmen.
Mara L. Southern,Walter T. Plant +1 more
TL;DR: Random samples of freshmen at a junior college and a university were administered 5 scales from the California Psychological Inventory in 1958–60, and to similarly obtained samples from the same institutions in 1970–71, and significant decade differences in mean scores by sex group were obtained.
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Father-Absent Women: Self-Concept and Modes of Relating to Men'
Jill A. Bannon,Mara L. Southern +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, four groups of college-age women were used to determine the relationship between absence of father in childhood and adult self-concept and interpersonal relationships with men, and the results revealed no significant differences among groups in most areas of selfconcept or interpersonal relationship with both older and age-peer men.
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Differential Cognitive Development within and between Racial and Ethnic Groups of Disadvantaged Preschool and Kindergarten Children
Mara L. Southern,Walter T. Plant +1 more
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Hippies and college students: are they really different?
Mara L. Southern,Virginia F. Fry +1 more
TL;DR: On the whole, the hippie sample's scores were interpreted as indicating exaggerated personality characteristics common to today's college youth.