A brief version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (San Francisco, September 1968).

This study showed that older males were the preferred therapists in all cases except for women with personal problems who tended to prefer older women. Preferences seemed to be related to high expectancies on therapy relevant" variables, especially understanding", rather than to similarity to the students. (Author/KJ)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Austin, November 1968. Research supported by a grant from NIH to the Institute for Juvenile Research.

Investigates the generalization of verbal conditioning effects to postconditioning personality and behavioral measures. Results demonstrated conditioning and generalization to some of the personality measures. (Author)

Research supported by Rehabilitation Services Administration Grant RD-906 and Social and Rehabilitation Services Grant RT-13.

Following the first session of implosive therapy, the patient was able to return to school and attend his most anxiety arousing class. After four sessions, he returned to school on a full time basis with no reported anxiety. (Author/KJ)

Paradoxical behavior of dependent P females tending to leave psychotherapy prematurely has been linked to the initial tendency of male therapists to be nondirective with females. The proposal was tested by having 43 college females state preferences for directive or nondirective therapist statements on an otherwise verbatim therapy transcript…

A comparison of therapeutic activity of A and B therapists obtained from tape recordings of therapy hours suggested that: (1) B therapists tended to be more facilitative; (2) A therapists tended to be somewhat more interpretative and negative. The present findings are consistent with previous research with the A and B scale, which suggested a…

Research supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health. Reprints from Kenneth Heller, Dept. of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

Based on a PhD dissertation (Syracuse University).

Investigation supported by a Research Career award from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service, and related to AA 501 855.

In a study of interpersonal and situational determinants of self disclosure in resistive" patients, psychiatric aides conducted brief interviews with hospitalized narcotics addicts. These results partially confirm prior therapy analogue studies involving the A B variable. (Author)

This report is based on a PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1967. Reprints: B.N. Danet, William Alanson White Institute, 20 W. 74th St., N. Y., N. Y. 10023.