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Item A preliminary investigation of the relationship between individual verbal behavior and aggressive reactions(1951) Smythe, Elizabeth Jane; McCary, James L.; Callicutt, Laurie T.; Stovall, Franklin L.Purpose of the Study. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between aggression (as measured by the Rosensweig Picture-Frustration Study) and language usage. Subjects. The subjects were forty-seven students in an elementary psychology class at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas whose ages ranged from nineteen to thirty-nine. Thirty-four of the group were male, and thirteen female. Testing Procedure. The group was administered the Adult Form of the Resensweig Picture-Frustration Study, and then each subject wrote a short story within a twenty minute period. The date were analyzed and applied to the three sections of the inquiry as summarized below. [...]