This research was primarily designed to measure effects of open hospitals on attitudes toward mental illness in the vicinity. An assessment of prevailing beliefs was a secondary objective. Communities adjacent to open and closed hospitals and communities having no NP hospital were sampled in Scotland and three regions of the United States. 1,200 selected people were individually interviewed with a questionnaire. Results confirmed the hypothesis that communities near unlocked hospitals were significantly more accepting of mental patients. This research revealed no evidence that cultural attitudes make open hospitals more feasible in Britain than in the United States.

Interrelationships between Need Approval, Maladjustment, and the Adjective Check List. JOHN W. HOLLENDEK, JOSEPH DOSTER, AND BONNIE R. STRICKLAND, Emory Uni vcrsity. Person Perception as a Function of the Deviation of the Visual Axes of the Object-Person.