The purpose of this study was to determine whether antisocial preadolescent children display more stimulation seeking than normals or neurotics in a situation intentionally designed to be boring. (Author)

The purpose of the present investigation was to extend previous findings in three areas, further relating hemisphericity to psychopathology. Based on the findings relating hemisphericity to psychopathology and to classroom seating, it was expected that there would be a relation between classroom seating and psychopathology. (Author)

The current study is concerned with developing a procedure designed to maximize subject attention to the written information while minimizing potentially confounding boredom or fatigue factors and second to cross-validate previous studies employing written information to modify performance with an improved experimental procedure. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the psychological characteristics of chronic primary insomniacs (persons who show no major psychological or medical problems other than long-term difficulties with sleep). (Author/RK)

Similarity of impairment in naturally occurring depression and laboratory-induced, learned helplessness was demonstrated in college students. (Editor)

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)

A carefully controlled comparison of the personality characteristics of heroin addict (n=27) and nonaddict (n=20) offenders was carried out so as to avoid methodological problems associated with earlier studies. (Editor)

These studies constituted attempts to determine whether and to what extent the problems exhibited by children with learning disabilities are due to dysfunction at the level of the cerebral hemispheres. (Author)

The goal of the study described here was to learn more about dream content in patients who had recovered from serious depression. The question was asked whether these formerly depressed patients still showed depressive traits in their nocturnal dreams, even though their daytime behavior and mood now approached entirely normal levels. (Author)

The primary purpose of the present study was to compare the relative efficacy of external-control and self-control procedures on both the production and maintenance of weight loss. (Author)

This study offered support for behavioral formulations of depression and suggested the utility of viewing depression as including multiple specific behaviors. (Author/RK)

The hypothesis was tested that the expectancy of the hypnotist is especially significant in determining the nature of the response of susceptible subjects. (Editor)

The present experiment was designed to assess the physiological changes instigated by the learned helplessness task, and to evaluate whether the physiological response patterns are similar to those reported in other studies on depression cited in this article. (Author/RK)

A large number of principles have been offered to account for thought disorder in schizophrenia. The two with which this paper is concerned are overinclusion and self-editing deficit. (Author)

This study investigates word-storage structure and processes of organization and retrieval in 17 young schizophrenics and 13 normal subjects. (Editor)