Suggests that chronic pain is a unique disability requiring the expansion of rehabilitation principles to include assessment and treatment. Identifies the components of pain, describes the impact of these factors on functional capacity, defines a process for rehabilitation planning, and reviews the literature for applications to rehabilitation…

Presents author's realization that exposure to the literature of general semantics is not enough to permit already established intensional orientations to restructure themselves into extensional orientations. (TO)

Estimates of the consistency of therapists from one segment to another within the same session and from one patient to the next suggested that accurate empathy may not be a stable quality of the therapist as is usually assumed, but instead may reflect a dyadic or relationship variable. (Author)

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a motivation and time-study course in reducing test anxiety. These results suggest that a motivation and time-study course, when offered in an academic context, can be an effective change agent for test-anxious academic low achievers. (Author)

Ratings on a fear inventory for children revealed three dimensions: fear of physical injury, natural events, and psychic stress. A comparison with studies of adult fears suggested that fear of physical injury and psychic stress carry through much of the life span, while fear of natural events mitigates with maturation. (Author)

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.