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MUCH speculative interpreta-tion and many conclusions based on observation and intuition regarding the differences between European and American university students have appeared from time to time. The value of the reports has varied greatly according to the experience and the insight of their writers, while the lack of sound, empirical research has persistently been apparent. In general, the statements have described the European student as a serious-minded neophyte intellectual, and his American counterpart as an extra-curricular, non-academic, apolitical youth. Recently, with the widespread international interchange of students under government sponsorship, some of the usual crosscultural student stereotypes have disappeared, often only to be replaced, unfortunately, by others equally broad and equally non-empirical. The object of the present paper, therefore, is to provide some cross-cultural …