The hypothesis being tested is that a tranquillizing drug will either "increase" or "decrease" hypnotic susceptibility according to the personality characteristics of the individual subject. Such a view may further understanding of the conflicting evidence which is supplied by the relevant experimental literature. (Author/RK)

A common pool of schizophrenic subjects was subdivided and analyzed three separate times on the basis of three sets of criteria: paranoid versus nonparanoid, neurologically normal versus neurologically abnormal, and long-term institutionalization versus short-term institutionalization. Differences in ability levels and patterns were determined for…

Elderly depressives sometimes perform as badly as patients with dementia on tests of memory. It was hypothesized that this might be because depressives adopt a very conservative response strategy rather than because their memory is really impaired. (Editor)

Study of male athletes at Springfield College indicates that while participation in competitive sports reduces feelings of aggression for winners, it may actually increase such feelings for losers. Author concludes that emphasis should be placed on performance rather than winning or losing. (RW)

Human responses to the Rorschach were analyzed according to developmental principles of differentiation, articulation, and integration in a longitudinal study of normal development (ages 11-12, 13-14, 17-18, and 30) and in a sample of adolescent and young adult inpatients. (Editor)

A total of 36 susceptible and 36 insusceptible subjects were tested to examine the effect of markedly contrasting styles of interpersonal orientation of the hypnotist on responsiveness in the hypnotic situation. (Editor)

Investigates the reliability of the findings of Ovenstone and Krietman (some completed suicides have attempted suicide previously, whereas other completed suicides have no such history) with a sample of completed suicides in the United States. (Author/RK)

Examines the relationship between perceived vulnerability to health problems and the repression-sensitization dimension. (Author/RK)

Considers several recent information-processing models of sentence-picture matching to assess their implications for sentence processing. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the effect of imagery ability upon performance in free recall and relates this effect to the distinction between primary and secondary memory. (Author/RK)

In a replication and extension of an experiment by Eagle, Wolitzky & Klein (1966), subjects wrote brief stories describing an Object Relations Test card following exposure to a 7 x 7 letter matrix in which were embedded either neutral words or emotive words. (Editor)

Craik and Lockhart's (1972) levels-of-processing theory has spurred new interest in semantic processing as a factor in memory, particularly with regard to free recall following incidental learning. However, their formulation lacks a clear description of the operations and structures involved in semantic processing. This research outlines a…

Attempts to point out some serious empirical problems with the theory recently put forth by Carpenter and Just (1975) as an account of the mental processes involved in sentence-picture verification tasks. (Author/RK)

120 college students sorted cards with instructions to process bits of information per card (response uncertainty) and then made an absolute judgment of the interval's duration. Judged time was an inverse linear function of response uncertainty under the prospective paradigm, whereas no significant function was obtained under the retrospective…

Balanced groups of obese and thin persons, men and women, lone eaters and group eaters, were unobtrusively observed. Observers noted occurrence of extraneous responses, counted bites and chews, and rated tension, mood, and food enjoyment. Results were reported at the International Congress on Obesity, London, October 1974. (Author)