The basic results of the present experimental investigation confirm those of an earlier study, indicating that anxiety functions as an activator of speech increasing productivity, simultaneously disrupting its flow by increasing the frequency of speech disturbances. (Author/KJ)

This study on the effects of self monitoring on normal smoking behavior indicates that smoking frequency and duration are significantly affected by such self monitoring, indicating that self monitoring is a reactive data gathering procedure. (KJ)

The initial development and cross validation of a Creativity (CR) scale for the Adjective Check List (ACL) is presented. The Cr scale significantly differentiated creatives from controls in every field of endeavor, but was not influenced by sex or type of creativity. (Author)

This analysis of social survey reports and other data points to the conclusion that the public tends to declare negative valuations on persons diagnosed as mentally ill. However, the public tends to be more tolerant of deviant conduct when it is not described with mental illness labels. (Author/KJ)

Through the use of a self report measure, evidence was provided for the hypothesis that the tendency to adopt either the ethics of personal conscience or the ethics of social responsibility in relation to moral principles is a result of the adherent's underlying personality structure. (Author/KJ)

Results indicate significant differences between children and adults, and among three levels of information about subjects affecting the accuracy of predictive judgment. The effect of instruction approaches significance. Reprints available from James L. Knestrick, 270E North Arlington Avenue, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17107. (Author)

By monitoring skin conductance and heart rate of 19 psychopathic, 21 neurotic, and 26 normal juvenile delinquents, it was concluded that the psychopathic autonomic characteristics resides in lower initial reactivity and not in more rapid adaptation, at least in response to a simple auditory stimulus. (Author/KJ)

The question of whether it is the subject or the investigator who is deceived is discussed relative to McFall's study on the effect of self monitoring on smoking behavior. Perhaps the results should be evaluated by the subject rather than by the investigator. (KJ)

This paper discusses some methodological, clinical and theoretical issues in the use of self observation raised in an experiment by McFall. (Author)

The smoking behavior and family stability of 251 undergraduate men and women and their parents were studied. The results support the identification interpretation of the father/son smoking pattern. The variable of family intactness was a relevant moderator of the parent/son smoking pattern. The mother and daughter smoking patterns remained…

Correlations were obtained between level of aspiration, gambling, and projective test variables. Achievement oriented behaviors in the level of aspiration task and in the gambling task were related to each other, and both were related to the adequacy of response to sexual stimuli in projective testing. Reprints from Herbert M. Lefcourt, Department…

A comparison of therapeutic activity of A and B therapists obtained from tape recordings of therapy hours suggested that: (1) B therapists tended to be more facilitative; (2) A therapists tended to be somewhat more interpretative and negative. The present findings are consistent with previous research with the A and B scale, which suggested a…

Study supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant M-2920 and the Veterans Administration Medical Research Program

Over the course of eight months of almost continuous contact, relatively normal speaking patterns were generated. At a one year follow up, the subject's speech was indistinguishable from that of her classmates. (Author)

The data suggested that present behavior can be predicted by perceived early history variables and that the interview is both a reliable and valid technique for obtaining these data. (Author)