Factor analysis of the WMS-R and the WAIS.

A principal components factor analysis of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was performed on 133 patients referred for neuropsychological assessment al a university medical center. Six factors were selected according to the Scree test, percentage of variance extracted, and the meaningfulness of the factors. The factors were labelled as follows: Perceptual Organization, Verbal Comprehension, Attention/Concentration, Complex Verbal Memory, Verbal Paired-Associate Memory, and Visual Paired Associate Memory. The Figurai Memory and Visual Reproduction I & II failed to emerge as a factor separate from the Performance subtests of the WAIS. Two verbal memory factors were found apart from the Verbal subtests of the WAIS.

Apparent reversals as a function of perceiver group, distance, and geometric shape.

3 groups of 3 men (high, medium, low perceivers) reported more reversals for trapezoids than rectangles. Responses were sensitive to distance, shadowing, and target, as Cahill suggested.

Sex differences in expected guilt reactions to hypothetical behaviors of sexual, hostile, and moral substance.

Differences between male and female guilt reactions to hypothetical guilt-inducing situations of a sexual, hostile, and moral nature were investigated. Two independent samples of Ss (56 men, 56 women; and 34 men, 62 women) reported the intensity of their anticipated guilt reactions to 60 hypothetical behavior situations presented in sentence-completion format through the use of scaled response alternatives. Across both samples there were specific behaviors, in which stable sex differences were evidenced, i.e., females' reactions were more intense for those behaviors reflecting sexual transgressions. However, males and females were highly similar in their reactions to hostile and moral guilt-provoking situations. Implications of these results for research on trait-guilt were discussed.

Measuring the poles of negative and positive mood using the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule and Activation Deactivation Adjective Check List.

The Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) has become one of the most widely used measures of mood. It was developed from research using responses to adjective checklists as empirical evidence for the two independent, bipolar factor model of mood. However, when scores on the PANAS were factor analyzed with those from another mood checklist, Thayer's Activation Deactivation Adjective Check List, the PANAS represented only half of the model proposed by Watson and Tellegen (1985) by not containing adjectives representing the lower poles of positive and negative affect.

Essential hypertension and self-disclosure.

A matched sample of 16 hypertensive and 16 non-hypertensive Air Force male Ss were administered the Journal Self-Disclosure questionnaire and participated in an interview that discussed high and low intimate topics. Questionnaire data, content analysis scores of interview topics, and situational stress measures supported the hypothesis that hypertensives conceal their personal thoughts and feelings from others and deny the emotion-arousing stimuli of a self-disclosure situation. Investigation of the underlying psychodynamics of hypertension in a self-disclosing situation as a potentially fruitful line of research was discussed.