An Examination of the Perceptual Asymmetries of Depressed Persons as Mediated by Hypnosis
Description:
This study evaluated the role of asymmetric processing of information in depression. Depression has been hypothesized to involve a deficit in the global processing of information (Tucker, 1982). This type of global processing has been manipulated through the use of hypnosis by Crawford and Allen (1983). In the current study, a 3 x 2 ANCOVA design allowed the comparison of three groups of subjects on their performance on a perceptual task measuring global perception. The task chosen was designe…
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Date:
August 1986
Creator:
Wilson, Lucy Erma
Partner:
UNT Libraries