This was an ex post facto analysis of the life histories of 24 Olympic female champions to determine events and variables in the psychological and social driving forces behind outstanding achievement in sports. (RC)

Cites a study designed to determine the effects of within-receiver emotion and communication skill on communicated message interpretation. (MH)

The data on approach to snakes provides srong support for the contention that the behavorial avoidance test is not immune to bias introduced by the operation of situational variables that have usually been allowed to vary in uncontrolled fashion in psychotherapy analogue research. Behavior of test subjects can be influenced not only in terms of…

This Analysis yielded three relatively independent and psychologically meaningful factors: Introversion, Social Maladjustment, and Emotional Maladjustment. These factors have a substantial general correspondence to certain Psychological Screening Inventory scales, although it was not possible to define a five-factor solution that corresponded…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the GSR during systematic desensitization. Three groups of females each were preselected for high snake fear. Outcome measures indicated that the desensitization group reduced phobic behavior most, followed by the relaxation group, and then the exposure groups. (Author)

This paper discusses aspects of modern society which facilitate personal growth and psychological health, and psychological disorders which come about primarily because of unexamined rejection of societal norms. (Author)

Paper present the findings from a study focusing on the relationship between levels of object concept construction and achievements in several other branches of functioning. (Author/CB)

The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was administered to 103 children from seven kibbutzim under frequent shelling and 90 children from seven kibbutzim that were never under fire. Contrary to the hypotheses that the children from the bombarded kibbutzim would have a higher level of anxiety than those from the nonbombarded ones, no significant…

Comments on a study which appeared in the Journal of Counseling Psychology v18 p431-436, by Graff, MacLean, and Loving. (CJ)

The results of this experiment clearly indicate that the presence of induced anxiety in a testing situation can depress the subject's level of performance on the WISC. (Author)

Darwin's views on various psychological behaviors were significant. Basing his conclusions on empirical research, he wrote extensively on the phylogeny of behavior, emotional expression, sexual selection, instincts, evolution of morals, ontogeny of behavior, and genetics of behavior. (PS)

This study points to the importance of sexual similarity when making empathic judgments as well as the need to consider the sex of the object as well as the sex of the judge when judging empathy. (Author)

The conflicting direction of anxiety changes in students new to their particular school building makes it difficult to attribute the change to something inherent within a school system's organization of grades. (Authors)

This study was designed to compare experimentally the therapeutic efficacy of group therapy stressing interpretive procedures intended to bring about client insight, with a form of group therapy experience encouraging client-to-client interaction without the intentional development of insight. (Author)

The authors predicted a low linear relationship between internality and self actualization, one conception of ideal personal adjustment. The results supported the hypothesized relationship more strongly for females than for males. The measurement instrument used was the Internal External Control of Reinforcement scale and the Personal Orientation…