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Long, Nicholas J. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2014
Youth in pain often show self-defeating and destructive patterns of behavior which should be seen as calls for help and positive support. Instead, deep-seated brain programs and cultural beliefs about discipline can trigger angry or avoidant behavior by adults who deal with these young people. This brief introduction to the Conflict Cycle…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cultural Influences, Behavior Problems, Brain
Laxer, R. M.; Walker, Keith – J Counseling Psychol, 1970
Hypotheses that efficacy of systematic desensitization could be attributed to anxlety reduction as a result of relaxation training, to extinction of nonreinforced fear responses, or to operation of placebo factors were tested as alternatives to counterconditioning hypothesis. Test anxiety reduction was found only for subjects given relaxation…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Conditioning, Psychological Patterns
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Viney, Linda L.; Manton, Monica – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
The study was designed to assess the relationships between certain expressions of anxiety and preferences for defense mechanisms. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Research Projects
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Zimmer, Jules M.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
The results of the current study, as well as the Zimmer and Cowles (1972) study using quite different procedures, involved a comparison of client-centered, gestalt, and rational therapies and do not support the conclusion that therapeutic relationships tend to be characteristically the same. Theoretical orientation as operationalized by…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Personality
Mathes, Eugene W.; Kahn, Arnold – 1973
The results of this investigation support, in part, the diffusion of responsibility hypothesis which states that antisocial behavior will occur whenever individuals are motivated to engage in socially-unacceptable behavior, and find themselves in a group of similarly motivated individuals. The mechanism by which this antisocial behavior is…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Group Dynamics, Motivation
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Ugwuegbu, D. Chimaeze; Hendrick, Clyde – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
This study examined the relationship between the severity of negative consequences of a blameworthy behavior and attribution of responsibility for that behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Research Projects, Responses
Pedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – 1972
Fixation and regression were considered complementary by Freud. You tend to regress to a point of fixation. They are both opposed to progression. In the general area, Anna Freud has written (The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence. London: Hogarth and the Psycho-Analytic Institute, 1937), Sears has evaluated (Survey of Objective Studies of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bibliographies, Psychiatry, Psychological Patterns
Pedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – 1972
Denial was a mechanism that Sigmund Freud worked with in his clinical practice and in his formulation of personality. He considered denial, e.g., in his papers on Repression (1915) and on Fetishism (1927) in Collected Papers, Volumes IV and V respectively (London: Hogarth and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1925 and 1950 respectively). It would…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bibliographies, Conflict Resolution, Denial (Psychology)
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Gershman, Louis; Stedman, James M. – Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1971
In a case of claustrophobia and in another with fears of flying, Japanese defense activities of the Karate type proved to be effective counter conditioners of anxiety. They were used in the former case in vivo and in the later case both in imagination and in vivo. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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Sheslow, David V.; Erickson, Marilyn T. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Depression in a college population was found to be correlated with small changes in many activities rather than with the large reductions in overt behavior reported for clinically depressed individuals. Results of the study suggest the possibility of an operant component in maintaining depressive behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Operant Conditioning
Degner, Lesley F. – Essence: Issues in the Study of Ageing, Dying, and Death, 1976
This paper presents an analysis of the bereavement reactions of survivors of peacetime disasters resulting in mass-death. A comparison of these bereavement reactions with those described as "normal" reactions to a single-death reveals certain similarities. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Death, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
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Pagano, Don F. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1973
R.S. Lazarus's theory of coping was used to investigate appraisal and reappraisal of threat in repressors and sensitizers. Two indexes of stress, self-report ratings of affect and palmar skin conductance, were measured prior to performance on a reaction time task, after one-third of the task was completed and after two-thirds of the task was…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Psychological Patterns
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Ollendick, Thomas H.; Gruen, Gerald E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conditioning, Emotional Disturbances, Extinction (Psychology)
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Edwards, Ralph – Journal of Drug Education, 1971
This article delineates man's search for sexual pleasure through the aid of drugs and other substances. While myths prevail that drugs create the sexual libertine spirit, scientific evidence indicates that no known drug serves as an aphrodisiac. (Author)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Behavior Patterns, Drug Therapy, Drug Use
Hormuth, Stefan; And Others – 1977
In a federal correctional institution, cognitive and behavioral variables related to the inmates' loss of freedom and their attempts at reestablishing freedom within the boundaries of the institution were collected. Variables were: (1) personal variables (age, sex, education, etc.); (2) perceptions about life and freedoms in the institution; (3)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Correctional Institutions, Expectation
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