The present study attempted to deprive human subjects of dreaming through the administration of a posthypnotic suggestion and to increase or facilitate dreaming through a second suggestion that was used with another group of subjects. (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 present study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that aggressive offenders have a greater amount of theta activity in their electrocortical rhythms than nonaggressive offenders, and also to examine the more general question of whether such individuals are cortically underaroused, underreactive, or more easily dearoused. (Author)

A review of literature dealing with moon phases and psychiatric emergencies was undertaken. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study was to examine the emotional adjustment of brain-damaged patients with dysphasic deficits. (Editor)

The present study reports data obtained from chronic schizophrenic patients which relate formal categories of language behavior to performance on the Stroop Color-Word Interference Test--a task of verbal encoding under distracting and nondistracting conditions. (Editor)

To test a theory that selective attention to threatening stimuli induces paranoia, an attempt was made to manipulate attention to threatening and nonthreatening statements among college students and examine the effects on three indices of paranoia. (Editor)

A total of 36 susceptible and 36 insusceptible subjects were tested to examine the effect of markedly contrasting styles of interpersonal orientation of the hypnotist on responsiveness in the hypnotic situation. (Editor)

The purpose of the present investigation was to study the frequency and type of negative responses (as defined by Zaslow) in children diagnosed as autistic, behavior-disturbed, and normal to verbal and nonverbal requests for verbal and nonverbal responses. (Author)

Using Schachter's theory of emotion as a starting point, two predictions regarding the interaction of alcohol consumed in social and solitary situations were tested experimentally. (Editor)

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the process of change within a construct as it undergoes either weakening by invalidation or strengthening by validation. Furthermore, this process was considered in terms of affective versus nonaffective constructs in order to determine whether invalidated affective constructs are more subject to…

The present study was designed to assess the cortical concomitants of selective mode-specific attention in subjects differing in the capacity for sustained attentional involvement. (Editor)

Data replicate and extend research on differences in physiological patterning between psychopaths and control subjects and provide new information on patterning with instructions and learned specificity with biofeedback. (Author/RK)

The comparative psychological well-being of transsexual females who sought sexual reassignment surgery to harmonize their anatomy with their male gender was investigated. (Editor)

The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine whether family history of parental marital discord has a separate and independent relevance for marital complaints by psychiatric outpatients that cannot be accounted for by differences in a variety of intervening factors. (Author)