The analyst's attitude toward pharmacotherapy

The increased acceptance of medication in psychoanalysis has occurred with too little consideration of possible complications. The potentially adverse psychological effects and disintegrative aspects of this important technical modification require further examination. While the use of phenomenologically defined diagnostic criteria provides valuable guidance to the clinician, the decision to include pharmacotherapy in a psychoanalysis must be understood also as a transference-countertransference enactment. The analyst's attitude toward pharmacotherapy is an essential element in some defensive and gratifying enactments, resistances that can interfere with psychoanalytic processes. Clinical material is presented illustrating narcissistic and perverse resistances that might be facilitated by analysts' attitudes toward pharmacotherapy, attitudes often tacitly communicated in decisions to use combined treatment.     

Relation of attitude toward body elimination to parenting style and attitude toward the body

The purpose was to estimate the relation of attitude toward body elimination in 93 college students (27 men and 66 women), to authoritarian personality features, participants' perception of their mothers' parenting style, and attitudes toward cleanliness, sex, and family nudity. Subjects were administered the Body Elimination Attitude Scale, the Four-item F Scale, the Parental Authority Questionnaire Pertaining to Mothers, and the items "Sex is dirty," "Cleanliness is next to godliness," and "Children should never see other family members nude." Larger scores for disgust toward body elimination were associated with authoritarian personality characteristics, being less likely to describe mother's parenting style as authoritative (open communication) and more likely to describe it as authoritarian and lower scores for tolerance for family nudity. Implications for further research were suggested.     

Dream recall and attitude toward dreams

Scores of 46 part-time college students (mean age 25.8 yr., SD = 5.7, 21 women, 24 men) on a 16-item inventory measure of attitudes toward dreams were only weakly related to the students' own estimates of their dream recall frequency in the last 6 mo. (r = .31), and unrelated to a similar estimate of nightmare recall frequency.     

The attitude toward mamzerim in Jewish society in late antiquity

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the attitude of the Jewish people to a marginal group in that society: mamzerim, from Biblical times to Late Antiquity. The social exclusion of mamzerim is already stated in Deutoronomy 23:3, though a reading of several later rabbinic and non-rabbinic sources suggests how this exclusion really took place. It is assumed that mamzerim were not accepted into the Qumram sect, just like handicapped persons, and they were not allowed to enter the Temple. According to rabbinic law a mamzer was excluded from society (as his parents' punishment), by the prohibition of marrying anyone of distinguished genealogy. However, there are sources that testify that prior to the crystallization of rabbinic law (in the second century c.e.) there were other ways of denying mamzerim access to society: they were prohibited from entering the Temple, they were not taught Torah, a mamzer's house and grave were painted white to point him out. According to a source in Toldot Yeshu, mamzerim were shaved bald so they were set apart from the community in many aspects of daily life. Analyzing the sources leads to an historical understanding of social exclusion as practiced in Jewish society in the past. It is argued that the `normative' rabbinic law testifies to a process of limiting the expulsion of mamzerim from society. It seems that this process reflects the new modes of life (especially after the destruction of the Temple), that the society had to face: a change in the family structure on the one hand, and relatively numerous mamzerim on the other hand. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

模糊产品展示对产品态度的影响机制

本文基于关联习得理论, 探讨了模糊产品展示对产品态度的影响。结合4个实验的结果, 发现模糊产品展示对产品态度的影响呈现倒U型。相比于低模糊度的产品展示, 中等模糊度的产品展示能够激发更高水平的柔软度感知, 进而提升产品质量评价, 最终导致产品态度更积极。但过高模糊度的产品展示会激发消费者强烈的消极情绪, 消极情绪对产品态度的消极影响会抵消掉柔软度感知的积极影响, 最终导致产品态度的降低。     

Measurements of accent and attitude toward Mexican-American speech

Three linguists reliably judged the accentedness of 32 Mexican-Americans and four Anglo male readers using a 7-point Preliminary Accentedness Scale. Next, the judges provided reliable assessments of the relative frequency of 18 types of accented pronunciation for nine of the speakers. An Accentedness Index was developed by averaging the relative frequencies over the 18 pronunciations. Accentedness measures produced by the linguists for the nine test speakers were compared with ratings of status, solidarity, and accent given by naive raters in another experiment (Brennan and Brennan, 1978). The Accentedness Index was a significant predictor of the Preliminary Accentedness Scale, of accentedness assessments by the naive listeners, and of status judgments. Pronunciation types were significant predictors both of accent and of status. Results are discussed in terms of validation of the concept of accentedness. Future use of accentedness measures to investigate spontaneous speech and attitudes of listeners toward their own speech is suggested.The present investigation is based upon data collected by the first author for her doctoral dissertation at the university of Notre Dame, and was partially supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health under Grant NICHD-06921. A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the Linguistic Attitudes Session of the Ninth World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden, in August 1978.     

Personality correlates of the attitude toward women scale

The full and short versions of the Attitudes Towards Women Scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Trait Anxiety Scale and the Group Embedded Figures Test were administered to 95 freshmen (male and female). Results indicated a relationship between liberal attitudes toward women and emotional stability. Scores on the Attitudes Toward Women Scale also tended to be independent of Lie scores.     

Psychological type and attitude toward Christianity: a replication

A sample of 149 university students completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales together with the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity. The data indicated that university students classified as Feeling Types hold a more positive attitude toward Christianity than those classified as Thinking Types. These findings replicate the 1999 report of Jones and Francis.     

Relationship quality influences attitudes toward and perceptions of infidelity

Do attitudes toward and perceptions of infidelity depend on perceived relationship quality? A prediction was made that there should be a positive correlation between perceived relationship quality and negative attitudes and perceptions of infidelity, and that these correlations should be stronger for males than for females. These predictions were confirmed. More specifically, strongly negative evaluations of infidelity were reported by females regardless of relationship quality, and for males with high relationship quality. Negative attitudes toward infidelity increased for both males and females in high‐quality committed relationships, but males who reported lower relationship quality had the most favorable attitudes toward infidelity. These results are consistent with an evolutionary rationale, which suggests that males' attitudes and perceptions of infidelity depend on their perceived risk of cuckoldry.