TY  - JOUR
T1  - ADvances in psychological assessment.
AU  - Rootes MD
Y1  - 1969/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140118015
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 246
EP  - 246
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - In some respects this volume conforms to the genre of a loosely edited collection of papers clustered around an appealing topic. It lacks a systematic organization of subtopics and includes a few chapters departing greatly in scope and intent from the general level. (One chapter is an eulogistic history of the development of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank; another presents the perhaps 300th attempt to provide new scales for the MMPI.) However, for the most part, editor Paul McReynolds has succeeded in obtaining a group of exciting summaries of areas "where the action is." Assessment is broadly conceived as an important aspect of the mainstream of psychological research This is a collection for the working social scientist interested in the development or critical selection of methods for assessing differences among the objects of his concern: individuals, dyads, or larger social networks. Most papers focus strongly on crucial
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140118015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140118015
ER  -