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...John MacLeod '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "Levelled Aspirations: Social Reproduction in a Low-Income Neighborhood"--Katherine McClelland. Teaching Fellow...
...recent study we sought to measure students' "capacity to analyze problems by collecting relevant data and mastering pertinent arguments." With Professor of Psychology David McClelland's assistance, we had constructed the "analysis of argument" test. It consisted of an excerpt from a sermon by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale in which he criticized the permissive child-rearing practices advocated by Dr. Benjamin Spock, claiming that these practices were creating moral lassitude among the young, resulting in the most undisciplined age in history. After reading the article, students were asked to argue against his position. When this task was completed, they...
...David McClelland is currently professor of Psychology and was chairman of the Social Relations Department...
McBer, a company originating from McClelland's studies on achievement motivation, applies his research to management training and job competency analysis...
Next winter, McClelland hopes to follow up his work by returning to India, where he did the initial achievement motivation research in the 1960s that led to the founding of McBer...