A study of the emotional attitudes of Indians possessing different degrees of Indian blood

Abstract

A comparison of results on the Pressey Interest-Attitude Test reveals no significant differences in emotional age or emotional retardation for groups of Indian children with varying degrees of admixture of white blood. According to norms based on white children the Indians are retarded emotionally about two years. "These results are in accordance with most of the more recent work on Indians, which stresses the importance of environment over heredity and throws some doubt upon the existence of true biological differences except in physical characteristics between races." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)