Showing papers in "Human Relations in 1970"

Personality, Motivational Systems, and Behavior of High and Low LPC Persons

Abstract: : The paper presents a new interpretation of the least preferred coworker (LPC) score which suggests that the score reflects a hierarchy of goals. High LPC persons have as their primary goal the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations and as a secondary goal the attainment of prominence and self-enhancement. The low LPC person is seen as having as his primary goal the achievement of tasks and material relations. The implications of this interpretation and the supporting data for the prediction of behavior, leadership training, and personality theory are discussed, as is the integration of the contingency model results with findings obtained in other leadership research programs.

Race and Physical Handicap in Children's Preference for Other Children

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine the relative salience of skin color and physical disability in establishing children's preference for other children. The method employed was to obtain a rank-order preference of drawings in which skin color and handicap were systematically varied. Subjects were children aged 10-12 from lower-income Negro, white, and Puerto Rican families, and from upper-income white Jewish families. Results suggest that, for all subjects, physical handicap is such a powerful cue in establishing preference that it largely masks preference based on skin color. Interpretation of results was aided by use of sociometric data on race preference.