The present experiment attempted to increase understanding of the "love is blind" phenomenon. White male American undergraduates exposed to an infatuation induction with an attitudinally dissimilar female confederate showed greater attraction to her than unexposed control subjects. The use of a misattribution-of-arousal manipulation eliminated this difference in attraction between the infatuation induction and control groups, thereby providing support for the role of positive emotional arousal in creating attraction toward the dissimilar other in the infatuation condition. Evidence was also found that suggested that attraction toward the dissimilar other was based not on a distortion by the subjects of her dissimilar attitudes, but rather on a more favorable evaluation of these attitudes.
Although cognitive restructuring (CR) procedures have not proven very helpful for phobics in recent studies, insight and rehearsal components of CR have often beer, confounded. To seek possible differences in effectiveness between insight and rehearsal, we treated 16 phobics (eight agoraphobics and eight others) with four sessions of each method, using a counterbalanced crossover design with 1-month follow-ups after each treatment component. Significantly fewer sessions were attended by the clients in the rehearsal/insight sequence, and benefit ratings made by project completers significantly favoured insight/rehearsal. Few other treatment group differences were seen, but those that emerged gave the advantage to insight. Rehearsal seemed unhelpful, particularly to nonagoraphobics. Conclusions are (1) that CR methods show some promise in application to phobias, provided that self-exposure homework forms the core of the treatment plan, and (2) that insight followed by rehearsal is the preferred sequence.
The relationship of male college students' scores on the A-B dimension to the content of their natural language elicited in dyadic situations was investigated. Twenty-eight subjects randomly paired after having taken the A-B scale were instructed to talk about personal issues for 45 minutes. Ten-minute segments of these recorded sessions were transcribed, categorized, and counted according to the Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary and Martindale's Regressive Imagery Dictionary. Correlations between content categories and A-B scores were calculated using a partial correlation procedure controlling for response productivity. As predicted, Bs were more defensive, focused on others, concerned with roles and institutions, and male-oriented than were As.
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