known as the "Maller Personality Sketches" in 1936 as well as the "Maller Character Sketches," which consisted of cards with descriptions of personality and character traits that were to sorted into groups. His research proved that intelligence test scores at the fifth grade level were closely related to socioeconomic levels and that there was a close relationship between delinquency, population density, and economic level. His chapter on personality tests in the 1944 work Personality and the Behavior Disorders became adopted as a standard treatment. He wrote a number of publications on his research and was a frequent contributor to Jewish educational periodicals. In 1934, Maller married Ruth Aronowitz, daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Aronowitz. Their children were Julia Shifre, Jean, and Michael. Maller died from a heart attack at the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx on May 8, 1959. References 1901 births 1959 deaths People from Vabalninkas Jews from the Russian Empire 20th-century Lithuanian Jews American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Lithuanian emigrants to the United States Washington University in St. Louis alumni Jewish Theological Seminary of America alumni Teachers College, Columbia University alumni Teachers College, Columbia University faculty 20th-century American Jews Jewish American social scientists 20th-century American academics Howard University faculty Yeshiva University faculty American sociologists