Does a five-fold increase i n catalog listings in 28 years equal double-digit psychology course title inflation?Psychology departments engaged in curriculum planning, revision, or retrenchment often seek information about course offerings in comparable institutions. Sanford and Fleishman (1950) presented useful data from college catalogs of 1947-48 and Daniel, Dunham and Morris (1965) published comparable information for the 1961-62 year, Kulik (1973) gives updated percentages for 1969 for the same courses identified in the Daniel et al. study, but his analysis does not reveal replacements of titles among the most frequent offerings.We have continued the series of surveys by tabulating titles of courses listed by psychology departments in recent catalogs. Because institutions of higher education have undergone great changes in the span of 28 years since the Sanford and Fleishman study, we were unable to replicate previous reports precisely. The first study included eight types of institutions (

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