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There is nothing so good as forbidden fruit. A fence between makes love more keen. The ass does not know the value of his tail until he has lost it.Nitimum in vetitum, semper cupimusque negata. 379 * Other criteria were employed in experiments for which there is no space here (see 16).t A simplified way of symbolizing forces is used in this report (see 11).

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OUR aim in this research has been to describe the psychological living conditions and behavior of the children of the town of Midwest and of some children with physical handicaps living in neighboring communities.I n 1951/52, Midwest was a rural, trading, and government center of 721 people in the central part of the United States. Since its founding almost 100 years before, it had not been directly influenced by cultural forces from outside the country. In this sense it was old American. The town was within one hour's automobile ride of a number of industrial and cultural centers, but few residents commuted to these cities to work. The town had a unity and a completeness of its own; it was the center of life for its inhabitants. Midwest was highly literate and had an advanced level of technological development; it was possible to live a "modern" life within the borders of the town.I n pursuing our aim we have become involved in many problems of methodology. These will not be reviewed in detail here. We shall only mention that it has been possible to discriminate reliably, naturally occurring behavior-situation units of both individual and extra-individual behavior phenomena. These are behavior episodes, each a unit of behavior and situation in the life of an individual person, behavior settings, each an enterable part of the community with a standing pattern of behavior, and behavior objects, each an object with which behavior is transacted in a characteristic way. These three differing foci of description all appear a t this time to have a unity and a psychological integrity which make them appropriate for studies in psychological ecology.

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