Operationalized Lifton's constructs of symbolic immortality and developed instrument to measure individual's needs for symbolic immortality in Lifton's five modes (biological, religious, nature, creative, experiential) in study which also examined age effects on needs for symbolic immortality and relation between sensation seeking and symbolic…

In a speech before the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, 1970, the author attempts to sum up some essential features of the prevailing psychological theorizing and research as well as the major criticisms brought up by the so-called "Critical Psychologists". (Author/BY)

This study utilized a dynamic cumulative family risk model to explain changes in adolescent functioning. We used a person-centered approach to detect patterns of academic, emotional, and behavioral functioning and the stability of these patterns using two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 10,173). Four adjustment…

Biorhythm comes from the Greek words for life and regulated beat. The science of biorhythm is concerned with the rhythmic cycles of physical, emotional, and intellectual life. These cycles have lengths of 23, 28, and 33 days respectively. During the first half of each cycle, energy is high. During the low period, second phase abilities, feelings,…

It has been discovered that dreams and daydreams can be productive states in the process of scientific innovation. An attempt is made to provide some typical examples of insights which have come to scientists during dream-like states and in sleep. (Author/MA)

Among the findings were that PKU Children judged to be emotionally disturbed and inadequate in communication performed more poorly than those PKU children judged nondisturbed and more adequate in communication under two of the three social stimulus interaction condictions. (Author)

Hypotheses that efficacy of systematic desensitization could be attributed to anxlety reduction as a result of relaxation training, to extinction of nonreinforced fear responses, or to operation of placebo factors were tested as alternatives to counterconditioning hypothesis. Test anxiety reduction was found only for subjects given relaxation…

Seventy-two second-, third-, and fourth- grade girls were exposed to a video-taped adult model who practiced and/or preached generosity or selfishness. The effect of the model's practices upon Ss donation behavior was marginally significant, but donation behavior was unaffected by either the power or the exhortations of the model. (WY)

Attempts to identify the root causes of individual stress have been made for centuries. The result has been the development of a myriad of approaches and explanations as to the cause of stress by psychologists, educators, researchers, and self-help authors. Each approach carries a degree of validity in the context that individuals experience…

Alice Miller's work provides a theoretical framework to assess the effects of child abuse and its relationship to the development of creativity, hatred, and violence in the novel "Ender's Game." Analysis focuses on the extent to which children are manipulated in order to meet the needs of adults, the presence of behaviors such as the repression of…

The effects of worry and rumination on affective states and mentation type were examined in an unselected undergraduate sample in Study 1 and in a sample of individuals with high trait worry and rumination, high rumination, and low worry/rumination in Study 2. Participants engaged in worry and rumination inductions, counterbalanced in order across…

The study was designed to assess the relationships between certain expressions of anxiety and preferences for defense mechanisms. (Author)

States that an adult basic education teacher is not only a teacher of subject matter, but also a teacher of how to live, succeed, and solve problems. Provides a review of the development of typical coping and defense mechanisms used by students in response to inner and outer pressures. (NRJ)

The results of the current study, as well as the Zimmer and Cowles (1972) study using quite different procedures, involved a comparison of client-centered, gestalt, and rational therapies and do not support the conclusion that therapeutic relationships tend to be characteristically the same. Theoretical orientation as operationalized by…

Sketches a theory of motivation from a phenomenological basis carrying it through the psychological experience to actual physical movement. The theory is based on the assumption that motives are not efficient but final causes and that the living being himself is the efficient cause of his actions. (Author/CJ)