This study examined the effectiveness of systematic desensitization for reducing the anxiety of highly test-anxious students who differed in their level of generalized anxiety. (Author)

The results suggest that these personality variables affect responding rather than affect arousal. (Author)

In general, none of the measures of rated disturbance was related to outcome criteria, but small to modest inverse relationships were obtained between the measures of subjective disturbance and global ratings of outcome. (Author)

Controversial article that attempts to cover everything from the definition of violence ( violence is not gentleness; it is not friendly persuasion;...") to the Warren Commission Report ( Study of this chapter..suggests that they might as well have consulted the entrials of sheep.") (MF)

Undergraduates rated anxiety associated with five dyadic interaction distances. The results indicated that very near distances are associated with increased anxiety. (Author)

Among the results obtained were that Ss tended to change more responses to items that were relevant in content, close to their scale point, and answered in the unkeyed direction on the first trial. Differential effects were noted and analyzed (Author)

Thirty three college students were arbitrarily given a number of electric shocks by an experimental partner for incorrect answers. Similarity between S and partner was then manipulated. The instigation to self-aggression is apparently greatest when high similarity is perceived between self and attacker. (Author/MF)

In a speech before the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, 1970, the author attempts to sum up some essential features of the prevailing psychological theorizing and research as well as the major criticisms brought up by the so-called "Critical Psychologists". (Author/BY)

A short version of this paper was delivered at the seventy-sixth annual convention of the APA, 1968.

To examine developmental patterns of and genetic influences on common fears, a 51-item survey was administered to more than 2,600 adolescents and adults, including more than 400 pairs of like-sex twins. Findings suggest significant genetic modulation of developmental patterns in the acquisition and maintenance of some adaptive fears. (Author/RH)

Compared four relaxation treatments for sleep onset insomnia with a waiting-list control. Treatments varied in presence or absence of muscular tension-release instructions and in foci of attention. Results showed all treatment conditions reduced latency of sleep onset and fatigue; visual focusing best reduced the number of nocturnal awakenings.…

Describes current work in selective attention within a framework of research conducted over the past century. Presents evidence that findings at the level of performance, subjective experience, and neural systems can be linked, even though these findings are not yet reducible to a single theory. (Author/GC)

A psychological profile of Canadian engineers is presented. (BB)

A model suggesting that dissatisfaction unfolds into a hierarchical arrangement is presented. The hierarchy begins with unease/disgust and proceeds upward with conscious awareness/articulation, active solution/action orientation, frustration/concern, and concludes with despair/fear/depression. (JC)