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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion At Victoria University College, Wellington, N. Z. Vol. 24, No. 4. 1961

As well as all this in the department Involved in any research?

Yes, it is sponsoring research in a number of ongoing fields. There are five major emphases

1.	Studies of social life and personality development among the contemporary Maori population of New Zealand.
2.	Studies in the field of Social Psychology of "racial" (ethnic) differences; for example how and at what age do Maori and Pakeha children in New Zealand develop an awareness of "racial" (ethnic) differences among their playmates and friends.
3.	Study of some of neuro-psysiological correlates of behaviour.
4.	The fourth emphasis, perception, consists of two questions (i) how do we come to understand the world about us; (ii) how does our perception of the world affect our learning.
5.	Lastly, the department is also sponsoring studies of personality correlates with some types of belittle heavy headed (overwhelmed haviour abnormalities, i.e. what kinds of persons are likely to display abnormalities of behaviour.

By this time I was getting a you might say). So I thanked him and took my leave, feeling, however, rather more satisfied than I did before.