Abstract:In response to a recent article by Guthrie and Wiener (1966) data and logical considerations are presented which support the following conclusions.( 1 ) For a number of recent studies of subliminal phenomena, the most parsimonious explanation for positive results is one implicating the subliminal registration of content and, contrary to the claim oE Guthrie and Wiener, not one relating to structural cues in awareness.( 2 ) Also contrary to their claim, Guthrie and Wiener's data provide little support for the v… Show more
“…For an extended discussion of how our experimental results support the concept of subliminal registration more strictly denned, seeSilverman and Spiro (1967) andSilverman (1968). Also, seeKaye's (1975) findings in which subliminal psychodynamic effects were found with the most rigorous signal-detection methods used to rule out the influence of partial cues.…”
It should be borne in mind that the term psychoanalytic refers to a treatment modality and a research method as well as to a theory. It is only the latter with which I am concerned in this article.
“…For an extended discussion of how our experimental results support the concept of subliminal registration more strictly denned, seeSilverman and Spiro (1967) andSilverman (1968). Also, seeKaye's (1975) findings in which subliminal psychodynamic effects were found with the most rigorous signal-detection methods used to rule out the influence of partial cues.…”
It should be borne in mind that the term psychoanalytic refers to a treatment modality and a research method as well as to a theory. It is only the latter with which I am concerned in this article.
“…All maintained that they had not seen any content and that they usually based their discriminations on whatever slight differences they could find in the size or the intensity of the flashes. For extended discussions of how the results from our experiments could not be attributed to partial cues, see Silverman and Spiro (1967) and Silverman (1968). significantly differentiated the symbiotic from the control condition: a percentage of responses rated as reflecting "castration anxiety"; a percentage of responses rated as reflecting "superego anxiety" (i.e., guilt); the total number of responses, this considered as an indicator of freedom from defensive inhibition.…”
“…It also can be noted that when we compared the results in the current experiments for the small group of discriminators with the much larger group of subjects who were not able to discriminate between the stimuli, the findings for the former were no more in keeping with our hypotheses than those of the latter. For extended discussions of how the results for our experiments could not be attributed to partial cues, see Silverman and Spiro (1967) and Silverman (1968). conditions.…”
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