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Adolescent and adult TAT protocols of 91 longitudinal Ss, 44 men and 47 women, were scored for imagery relating to achievement, affiliation, power, and aggression. These scores were then correlated with behavioral measures made at corresponding times. The results suggest it is not possible to make a statement about the relation between TAT fantasy and behavior that will hold for all motives, ages, and both sexes, although the predominant effect seems to be direct rather than inverse. Results were clearest for achievement and power. Measures of aggression-inhibition correlated directly with measures of overt aggression.

This paper describes an attempt to condition the pupillary response to an auditory stimulus. Conditioning of the pupil is not new. It was reported as early as 1916 by Watson (10). In spite of the many experiments which have been performed since then (1,2,4,6,7,8,9), there is no clear understanding of the necessary and sufficient conditions for the production of this conditioned response. In fact, there is considerable disagreement as to whether the pupil can be conditioned at all (8, 9). In view of the contradictory findings in this field, the recently published experimental results of Baker (1) and Metzner and Baker ( 7) are startling in their implications. Not only do they report conditioning of the pupillary response but also they claim that conditioning was established in two trials provided the auditory stimulus was below the 'conscious limen' (1, p. 13). Baker presents evidence to show that if the auditory stimulus is below this limen, a conditioned response of the 'disturbance' type can be shown to exist at the second simultaneous presentation of light and tone, and the 'final form' response appears at the third trial. This final form response is very stable and very specific. He also states that if the auditory stimulus is supraliminal, a much longer series of paired presentations (from 29 to 105 trials) is necessary to obtain the CR.These results seemed important enough for the theory of conditioning to warrant a repetition of the experiment. The results of this repetition are reported in the following pages. APPARATUS The apparatus (Fig. i) consisted of three parts: the pupillometer, the recording device, and the stimulating instruments. The pupillometer was a modification of similar devices described by Baker (l), and Ferree and Rand (3), and utilized the

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