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...looked around. It was Monday morning, January 27, 1969. Two days before, he had been taking an English exam; now he sat cross-legged on a soft brown rug in a small cabin called Firo, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. Two days before, 11 people had been killed by a mud-slide in Southern California, a result of the worst flooding in the state in 31 years; now it was bright and sunny, and far below the surf was pounding in against the shore...
...describe self-evaluation and self-activity are worth noting, although they depend on significant differences in only the 1964 sample. The psychiatric group was lower on the Self-Acceptance Scale and higher on the Anxiety Scale. There was also an interesting difference on the Expected Control Scale of the FIRO. This test is designed to measure factors in interpersonal relationships or interpersonal needs. Expected control assesses the extent to which the individual anticipates he can and will exert control over others. To that extent, a low score represents some feeling of a lack of effectiveness in dealing with others...
...study is Project FIRO-B--Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation, being conducted by William C. Schutz, lecturer and research associate for the Department of Social Relations. The study was launched last fall for the purpose of determining what factors are most important in the selection of roommates...
Preliminary findings indicate that the Affection criterion, the agreement between potential roommates on how close the relationship between roommates should be, tends to confirm FIRO's compatibility predictions better than any other criterion used in the personality study. Among the other criteria considered are Inclusion, the amount of contact one desires with other people, and Control, different attitudes toward decision-making...
...idea for Project FIRO came from a similar experiment conducted last year with a fraternity at M.I.T. The roommate predictions for the members proved accurate in 75 per cent of the cases...