SummaryThe Psychotic Reaction Profile (PRP) was administered to a class of nursing students (N=36) at the very beginning and at the end of their psychiatric affiliation. They were asked to complete the PRP so as to describe the behavior of the average mental patient whom they expected to encounter (and to have encountered) in the state hospital. The results suggested that the students' expectations regarding mental patients changed, in a more realistic direction, as a result of having experienced the affiliation. The results were discussed in terms of personality or attitudinal changes concurrent with the acquisition of a college education.