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Eighty‐four police officer applicants (61 White males, 12 White Females, and 11 minority males) were administered the MMPI‐2 as part of an employment screening assessment. All the applications showed a defensive style, low scores on scales 2 and 0, and extreme scores on scale 5. Implications of high scale 5 scores for female and low scale 5 scores for male police officer applicants are discussed.

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This study tested the proposition that the favorability of impression formation would be influenced by ersonality style m defined by the Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scale. Viiotaped interviews of five extreme repressor and five extreme sensitizer targets were rated for favorability on 10 adjective trait dimensions by three groups of perceiver Ss that consisted of 50 repressors, 50 neutrals, and 50 sensitizers, respectively. As predicted, the sensitizer targets were rated significantly less favorably than were the repressor targets. However, none of the hypotheses re the interaction of rater and target personality style was confirmed. It was concluded that the R-S scale bears a relationship to self-presentatbnal behavior and the affect of depression.The favorability of impression formation generally is regarded as a primary element in person perception (Warr & Knapper, 1968). Shrauger and Altrocchi (1964, pp. 294-295) have argued that the degree of favorability expressed in the description of another person "should be high on a priority list of specific dimensions worth investigating." This study was directed toward an examination of the relationship between the favorability of person perception and the dimension of personality style known as repression-sensitization.Byrne's (1963) Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scale has gained wide acceptance as the standard operational definition of the repression-sensitization dimension. Repressors have been defined as individuals who avoid anxiety-evoking stimuli and use such defenses as repression and denial. Sensitizers have been defined as individuals who approach anxiety-evoking stimuli and use such defenses as intellectualization and obsessive rumination.Recent evidence also suggests that the R-S scale may have relevance for the process of person perception and impression management. Thus, Parsons and Fulgenzi (1968), in a study that involved person perception, report that repressor judges tend to give more favorable ratings to sensitizer targets on measures of hostility and aggression than do sensitizer judges when the latter rate repressor targets. Sensitizers also appear to have a more negative "philosophy of life;" they tend to see the generalized other in less favorable terms than do repressors (Duke & Wrightsman, 1968). Carrera and Cohen (1968) have defined operationally the R-S scale as a measure of the tendency to express socially desirable feelings and attitudes.The major hypotheses of the present study were as follows: (a) repressor targets would give more favorable ratings to target persons than would either sensitizer or neutral perceivers; (b) the ratings given to the repressor targets by all perceiver groups would be more favorable than the ratings given to the sensitizer targets ; and (c) there would be a discernible interaction between the personality style of the perceiver and target person. Consequently, sensitizer and neutral perceivers would give less favorable ratings to repressor targets than would repressor perceivers. METHOD SubjectsThe perce...

Knight Dunlap, an important contributor to early twentieth-century American psychology, is largely ignored by contemporary histories of psychology. This article outlines his major achievements and speculates about some of the reasons for his current position of relative obscurity.