Russel Sage Foundation

Examines the conditions under which motives to achieve are fostered in children. The papers included in this volume reflect the major traditions of research in the field and bring together a set of studies for achieving a better understanding of the ways in which achievement-related personality characteristics develop and function in evaluative or competitive situations.

CHARLES P. SMITH is associate professor of psychology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

CONTRIBUTORS: John W. Atkinson, Virginia C. Crandall, Sheila C. Feld, Judith Lewis, Howard A. Moss, Seymour B. Sarason, Charles P. Smith, and Joseph Veroff