If the spontaneous remission phenomenon is genuine rather than an artifact, remission should show a relationship to the length of time elapsed. Thirty analyses of variance, treating judges and diagnostic categories independently, produced no evidence for a relationship between lapse of time and improvement. (Author)

Author discusses the application of behavior modification techniques to certain disruptive behaviors. (MB)

Data from the California Psychological Inventory suggested that users were socially poised, open to experience, and concerned with the feelings of others. Conversely, they also seemed impulsive, pleasure seeking, and rebellious. Nonusers were responsible and rule abiding; however, they also tended to be inflexible, conventional, and narrow in…

Sexually aggressive males appear to have been subjected to developmental and socialization influences that leave them distrustful of women, generally aggressive, and with a high sexual urge. They are motivated to seek male associations which sanction their impulses and socially reward their conduct, enabling the aggressor to support his self…

It can be concluded that psychological needs are related to the expressed probable careers of college men, although the role of these needs is still unclear. Of the three occupations in this study, the needs of students preparing for law were the most distinctive. (Author)

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)

The present research sought to determine whether developmental congruity between symptom form and level of maturity might be indicative of generally greater potential for adaptive success, as indicated by a measure of defense effectiveness. The results were as predicted. (Author)

New items were written for the sensation seeking scale in an attempt to develop new scales representative of hypothesized dimensions of sensation seeking. Four new factors were thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition and boredom susceptibility which was retained as a subscale for males only. (Author/CG)

the findings indicated that (1) physical and psychlogical health are associated with marital happiness regardless of marital history, and (2) at the same time, divorce and remarriage tend to "select" the healthier members of the unhappy married population. (Author)

This experimental study investigated several factors as they relate to hostility: health problems, displacement, life stress situations, participation in recreational activities, viewing of violence via movies and television, sex, major field of study, and year in school. (Author)

Multiple discriminant analysis was applied to the 10 personality variables of the RSAP and to 17 groups of academic majors based on data collected on 628 college juniors. The hypothesis of equality of population centroids for the 17 groups was rejected at the .01 level. (Author/CJ)

Takes an exploratory look at the relationships between (1) the various fears that develop during infancy, (2) perceptual-cognitive development and the exhibition of specific fears, and (3) individual differences in temperament and the manifestation of specific fears. This paper was presented at the Merrill-Palmer Institute Conference on Research…

Principles of psychology are applied to scenes of campus disturbances and administrative guidelines are recommended. (Author)

A female's resistance is generally an unconscious fear of assuming a wife and mother role, based upon an unsatisfactory childhood relationship with her own mother. (CJ)