The four subscales of Bass's Famous Sayings test were compared with brief measures of authoritarianism, creativity, extraversion, response acquiescence, and moral judgments in mitigating circumstances. Intercorrelations among the subscales of Bass's test were similar to those obtained by Vidulich and Bass (1960), while correlations with the other personality tests showed several significant relationships consistent with expectations. In this sample of college students (N = 59) hostility correlated significantly with both authoritarianism (.26) and creativity (.40).
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