Eysenck has stated that dysthymics were introverted and psychopaths were extraverted. This study tested this hypothesis. (Author)

This study investigated the possibility of employing mildly mentally retarded residents to observe the mealtime behaviors of lower level mentally retarded residents. Then these residents were employed as reinforcing agents, to determine if a retarded "trainer" could modify the observed mealtime behaviors within a multiple baseline design.…

Similarity of impairment in naturally occurring depression and laboratory-induced, learned helplessness was demonstrated in college students. (Editor)

These studies constituted attempts to determine whether and to what extent the problems exhibited by children with learning disabilities are due to dysfunction at the level of the cerebral hemispheres. (Author)

This study offered support for behavioral formulations of depression and suggested the utility of viewing depression as including multiple specific behaviors. (Author/RK)

The hypothesis was tested that the expectancy of the hypnotist is especially significant in determining the nature of the response of susceptible subjects. (Editor)

The present study investigated the relationship between conformity and psychopathology in male and female manic-depressive (MD), paranoid schizophrenics (PS), and normals (N) on two conformity tasks under conditions of live social pressure. (Author)

This research attempted to find the causal relation between mood and level of reinforcement. An effort was made to learn what mood change might occur if depressed subjects increased their levels of participation in reinforcing activities. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to assess the mood correlates of learned helplessness in human subjects. (Editor)

It is argued that conclusions drawn from Kirkegaard-Sorensen and Mednick's recent study on criminality are weakened by inadequate selection of controls. (Editor)

The purpose of this study was to propose an alternative explanation of defective sociopathic avoidance conditioning based on the model of sensory reinforcement (Duffy, 1962) and the principle of optimal stimulation (Leuba, 1955). (Author)

An attempt was made to uncover dysfunctions in any of the mechanisms in selective attention, as well as any unusual allocation policy, which possibly exist in schizophrenia. (Author/RK)

Four psychological theories of paranoid phenomena, termed the shame-humiliation, homosexual, hostility, and homeostatic theories, are compared for their explanatory power. Shame-humiliation theory is considered prefereable because of its greater explanatory range and its ability to include the others as special cases. (Editor)

Deals with the pervasive change which has occurred in recent decades in the conception of so-called neurosis and with the resulting modifications in corrective or "therapeutic" measures. (Author/RK)

This study attempted to verify an earlier finding that visual imagery does not desynchronize alpha rhythms, to determine if the revisualization of a nocturnal dream is desynchronizing beyond the expectation to request revisualization of a dream, and to demonstrate that hot images are produced by the repressed aims of drives. (Author/RK)