Two experiments were designed to provide an empirical test of an attribution model of psychopathology and to extend it to the clinical problem of social anxiety. Specifically, the research examines the relation between social anxiety and attributions of success and failure in heterosexual interactions. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to propose an alternative explanation of defective sociopathic avoidance conditioning based on the model of sensory reinforcement (Duffy, 1962) and the principle of optimal stimulation (Leuba, 1955). (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to compare the utility of model characteristics of coping, mastery, and positive affect behaviors in modifying psychiatric patients' anxiety and performance in a simulated job interview. (Author)

The present study was undertaken to determine whether distinctive psychophysiological and phenomenological differences are associated with the presence and absence of an avoidance response following the threat of receiving an electric shock. (Author)

This study attempted to verify an earlier finding that visual imagery does not desynchronize alpha rhythms, to determine if the revisualization of a nocturnal dream is desynchronizing beyond the expectation to request revisualization of a dream, and to demonstrate that hot images are produced by the repressed aims of drives. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of instructional expectancy and experimental demand on verbal, behavioral, and physiological indices of speech anxiety. (Author)

Using public-speaking anxiety as a target behavior, the present study focused on relaxation training and how to develop that skill. (Editor/RK)

It was hypothesized that individual differences in eating behavior based on the distinction between obese and normal subjects could be demonstrated within a population of normal subjects classified as to the extent of restraint chronically exercised with respect to eating. (Editor)

This research examines separately the cognitive and pharmacological effects of alcohol by manipulating subjects' expectancies. It was found that although alcohol is a pharmacologic sedative and reduces anxiety, the cognition that one is drinking alcohol increases anxiety. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of the present experiment was to answer the question of whether patients labeled high or low in "ego-strength" differentially responded to scenes designed either to elicit anxiety or produce little (neutral) affect. (Editor)

Explores the association between the relatively passive, sitting meditation and absorption and anxiety using a cross-sectional design. (Author/RK)

This research was designed to clarify the role of autonomic response and evaluative self-awareness in test anxiety. Autonomic, self-report, and performance measures of anxiety were collected from both test-anxious and non-test-anxious individuals in an analogue testing situation under three experimental conditions. Results support cognitive…

Tests Wolpe's prediction that autonomic sexual and anxiety arousal states are mutually inhibitory. Results suggest that the way these states interact with each other may depend on the context in which subjects perceive the stimuli that generate these respective arousal states. (Editor/RK)

Examines the dialogue communication behavior of a group of chronic, male schizophrenics and demonstrates a relation between these same indices of communication behavior and types of anxiety expression. (Editor/RK)