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ing your thoughts? Did you ever walk in your sleep? And 

 the following were for like reason rejected: As a child, did 

 you have dreams that frightened you? Have you ever been 

 engaged to a girl? Do you like to be the leader in whatever 

 is going on ? 



The conference of psychiatrists and psychologists, at 

 which the questionary was revised, authorized the printing 

 of twelve thousand copies which were to have been placed in 

 immediate use at several camps. Cancellation of drafts and 

 the termination of psychological service in the field prevented 

 the complete execution of this plan. Important results were 

 obtained from the examination of five hundred negro re- 

 cruits, from about five hundred soldiers invalided home from 

 overseas for nervous disturbances and examined at General 

 Hospital number 30, and from neuro-circulatory asthenics at 

 Camp Upton, as well as from normal subjects. 



Work on the Personal Data Questionary will continue, at 

 first in the direction of determination of norms, since the 

 method undoubtedly possesses considerable value as a means 

 of discovering and segregating subjects who should be given 

 special neuro-psychiatric examinations. The chairman of the 

 subcommittee, who has been chiefly responsible for this work, 

 will prepare an adequate account of the method and its re- 

 sults for publication in a suitable periodical. 



10. Committee on "Propaganda Behind the German Lines " 

 — This subcommittee, consisting of Scott and Angell, chair- 

 man, was appointed in December, 1917, by the Psychology 

 Committee of the Research Council on motion of Dodge. 

 This action followed urgent requests of Hall of the Psychology 

 Committee that psychological assistance be rendered the 

 War Department in connection with problems of military 

 and civilian morale. 



Prior arrangements of the War Department rendered it 

 impossible for the subcommittee to accomplish anything in 

 the direction originally indicated by the committee's dis- 

 cussion of needs, but subsequently members of the Psychology 

 Committee were able to focus the attention of various officers 

 of the General Staff" on psychological aspects of the morale 

 problem. 



