Large groups of schoolboys were told of various incidents and relationships in the life of a boy. After hearing each segment of the story they were asked questions regarding the motivation of the characters, the consequences of certain acts, and the like. Such boyhood experiences were involved as crying, dreaming, wishing, keeping secrets, being afraid, lying, and observing hostility between the parents or between parents and children. The responses of the German boys demonstrated a marked identification and loss of distance, a strong tendency toward conventionalism and rigidity, anxiety over schoolwork and wrongdoing, a particular dislike of cowards, and a favoring of corporal punishment (increasing with age) with no regard for fitting the punishment to the crime. English boys, in contrast, dislike bullies, ruffians, and girls, become more lenient with age rather than more drastically punishing, are sensitive to adapting punishments to crimes, and in general maintain a more detached and imaginative attitude toward the life situations in the story.