File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."
File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Johnstone. Also includes a manuscript titled "My name is legion, part III: a ten year mental health study in Nova Scotia is completed" by Ken Johnstone.
File contains correspondence with or about Berton H. Kaplan. Also contains a curriculum vitae for Berton H. Kaplan, a reference report, newspaper clippings, and a script for a speech.
File contains correspondence with or about Felix M. Keesing. Also contains "Field guide series number one: field guide to Oceania" for the Committee on International Anthropology of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology National Research Council.
File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Kern. Also includes the report "Theory and practice in a program of social change," and materials for a psychology course.
File contains documents related to a mental health primary prevention proposal. Documents include correspondence, progress reports, research proposals, and workshop proceedings.
File contains newspaper clippings, information on Joseph Kidd, "Guide to interviewing and clinical personality study," "Improvisations: an application of psychodrama in personality diagnosis," and counselling and testing materials.
File contains correspondence with or about D'Arcy McNickle. Also contains a report titled "Comments on the tentative statement of policy of the war relocation authority, May 29, 1942." Also contains a photocopied newspaper obituary for D'Arcy McNickle.
File contains correspondence with or about Margaret Mead. Also contains a report titled "Provisional analytical summary of Institute of Pacific Relations conference on Japanese character structure."
File contains notes on psychiatric symptoms and diseases present in Nigerian respondents, and on the respondents' beliefs regarding illness. Also contains notes between researchers sharing thoughts and findings. File also includes Jane Murphy's field notes from discussions of disease with respondents. File also contains a copy of the study "The psychiatric examination of native African patients" by Edward L. Margetts.
File contains manuscripts for two papers written by Alexander and Dorothea Leighton: "Illustrative examples of applied social science" and "A program for utilizing social science in the development of foreign policy."
File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.
File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.
File consists of the "Handbook for psychiatric evaluations in epidemiological field work" for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research project by Alexander Leighton, Dorothea Leighton, and Roderick A. Armstrong.
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
File consists of reports on Japanese psychology during World War II, titled "The word and the deed" and "Current psychological and social tensions in Japan."
File contains 3 articles written by Alexander H. Leighton: "Mental health and the problem of cooperation between races and between nations," "Psychiatry and the health of the public," and "Reflections of a tender-minded radical."
File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.
File contains a summary of reliability tests made by comparing psychiatric and social data protocols of the Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a memo regarding Jane Murphy's study on literacy, sociocultural chance, and mental illness in rural Yorubans.
File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.
File contains correspondence with or about Thomas A. C. Rennie. Also contains an obituary cut from a newspaper, telephone correspondence transcriptions, a progress report for the Yorkville Community Mental Health Research Project, and 1 photo : b&w; 3 x 3 3/4 in.
Item is a restricted report outlining the implications of how news is presented to the public in a popular Japanese newspaper, a key means of disseminating domestic propaganda.
Subseries consists of revised analysis and evaluation materials for the 1961 and 1963 studies. Also includes correspondence on the projects and field notes with great detail on respondents' interviews and evaluations.