Anxiety, intelligence, and discrimination.

Kerrick (1956) found no relationship between anxiety as measured by the Taylor Manifest Anxiety scale (Taylor, 19S3) and discrimination among concepts on the semantic differential (Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957). He found a positive relationship between intelligence and discrimination. On the other hand, Ware (as reported by Osgood, 1962) and Brod, Kernoff, and Terwilliger (1964) found no relationship between intelligence and discrimination on the semantic differential, and the latter group of investigators found a positive relationship between anxiety and discrimination. In view of these conflicting results, it was decided to conduct a further investigation into these relationships.