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...second, David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, will study ways of equipping high school students to improve their achievement motivation...
Newman will head a five-man executive committee appointed to oversee the Center. Besides Newman, who is also Director of the Psychological Laboratories, the committee includes Jerome F. Bruner, professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies; David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology and Chairman of the Department of Social Relations; Miller; and Robert F. Bales, professor of Social Relations and Director of the Social Relations Laboratories...
...Since McClelland, Miller and Bales are all absent this year, Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Psychology and Acting Chairman of the Soc Rel Department, and Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, will serve on the committee until June...
...basic thesis of the project, which grew out of 15 years of research summarized in McClelland's book, The Achieving Society, is that by developing achievement motivation in key individuals who hold or will hold executive positions in under-developed countries, the rate of development of a particular area or region can be accelerated...
According to McClelland, the economic progress of a country is determined by the motivations of the people who comprise the nation. The attitude of the people toward achievement for its own sake is closely linked to economic development. If a nation is comprised of individuals who are striving for achievement, then the nation will advance economically...