Psychiatric diagnoses are powerfully influenced by the contexts in which patients are found and the expectations of diagnosticians. The observations of Millon, Spitzer, and Weiner on Rosenhan's "On Being Sane in Insane Places" (AA 521 951) were examined for the implications they held for the meanings of sanity and insanity. (Editor/RK)

The present experiment investigated the effects of preexperimental social deprivation and satiation on the responsitivity of chronic schizophrenic patients to contingent social stimulation. (Author/RK)

Some principles of attribution theory, as well as a logical analysis, are employed to criticize a 1973 report by Rosenhan contending that "we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in mental hospitals." (Editor)

The relation between intelligence at admission and subsequent rehospitalization was examined in 91 schizophrenic males. (Editor)

Distinguishes several important aspects of Rosenhan's pseudopatient study by which emotions are aroused, offers a Bayesian characterization of the diagnostic process observed by Rosenhan and his fellow pseudopatients, and suggests a direction in which research on these important issues might proceed. (Author/RK)

Concern about the existence of abnormality or the reality of the distinction between sanity and insanity is in large part philosophical puzzlement. It can be alleviated by an analysis of the meaning and significance of scientific concepts and facts. (Editor)

An investigator's method of selecting schizophrenic and control subjects for comparison can assure either a difference or a lack of difference between groups on almost any kind of task that requires a voluntary response. Discusses how researchers should select subjects and the inferences that may reasonably be drawn from studies of schizophrenic…