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k THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Psychology Department Presents Report on Mentality of Prisoners greater temptation. Moreover, we must forget that the stupid offender is the one that the law is likely to apprehend. We are rather sure from an interview with Superintendent Miller of the reformatory, that he as signs delinquency to a perverted will and perverted ideals. Needless to say, without Mr. Miller's kindly in terest and advice, the above study would have been impossible. ORPHEUM ONE ONLY WEEK 2:20 TWICE 8:15 DAILY IT S THE TALK OF ALL LINCOLN TODAY. phatic in their testimony that feeble minded subjects may have characters of the most sterling type; that the feeble-minded person offends more frequently than others, because his Cecil B.DeMille's Mighty Spectacle handicap in life subjects him to I Storvfer Jeanie Maxphers-on frnous PIa.yer9-La.tKy Corp.). ORCHESTRA of TWENTY raOM GE0-M.C0HAN THEATRE.JTY FATS NOW SELLING FOR ALL SEATS PERFORMANCES. NIGHTS Me, 7Sc, $1.00, $M. 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The Moot, The department of psychology of the University has made the follow ing report on the results of a study of the mental and emotional endow ment of eighty-six prisoners in the state reformatory for men at Lin coln: The supposed relation of mental deficiency to delinquency is more and more becoming an object of doubt. The army intelligence tests at least have the virtue of telling what the average man can do in a test of mental endowment. But the army tests, given to delinquents in various army camps indicate that sometimes offenders are above the averago in intelligence. This was the case at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., which af forded some 3,300 records of mental tests. Dr. Murchison of Yale uni versity gave the army test to a total of 3,942 prisoners at the Ohio re formatory, the Ohio penitentiary for women, the penitentiary at Joliet, Il linois, the Indiana penitentiary, and the penitentiaries of New Jersey and Maryland. He found that the intel ligence of offenders in these places was entirely normal, in many in stances, above normal. The department of psychology of the Nebraska state university ad ministered the army intelligence test to about one hundred inmates at the reformatory for men. When the records of the negroes and those with language difficulties were excluded, eighty-six cases were left. The average age of this group was twenty-one years and nine months. The average grade reached in school was the seventh grade; and the schooling ranged from the first grade to the twelfth. The average score secured by these men was 77.47 points. This means that this group ranks aoove average in in telligence if we take the army stand ards as the basis of comparison. In the army, the average range of grades was from 45 to 74 points. It would seem that mental de- ficiency can become a cause of de linquency only when combined with certain character-trends. At least psychology and common opinion are ar ea mat instinct, naoit, emotion anu sentiment are the true forces that determine conduct. We are hav ing our first successes in measuring such factors, and in an age when problems of delinquency are so har rowinir every endeavor should be made to perfect such tests and to em ploy them in studying the baffling problem of the psychology of miscon duct. ' Test Emotional Traits. Animated by this interest, the above group of men was given the well-known "Pressev X-O" test of emotional traits. The results are significant. They may be considered under three headings: (1) These men are less affected by experience than normals. But, they do show emo tional disturbance when things are suggested which refer to them per sonally, or which suggest fear. They are less affected by words which re fer to the disgusting or to the sex The normal person is most strongly affected by disgusting terms. (3) They exhibit "idiocyncrasy" or queer- ness in their emotional and sentimen tal make-up. For instance, they dif fer widely from the normal person in their normal notions. They lack per spective in judging degrees of delin- auency. They show a tendency to blame others for offenses, and exhib it a tendency towards ideas of perse cution. (3) They show a marked ten dency to hpyochondria. This means, a tendency to pay attention and to worrv about the bodily functions The hypochondriac is constantly be set with notions of disease, and wnen he actually has some disorder, gives it undue emphasis. In short, these tests confirm the common-sense view that the cause of delinquency is to be sought in warped character and ideals, rather than in defective intelligence. Dr. Healy of Boston and Dr. Wallin of St. Louis, both experts in this matter, are em- vm m n aAa klrf and ' UU Oi-wi v enjoy every minute of the game in a cosy ou.i"--System coape or sedan. 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