One determinant of the capacity to free-associate in psychotherapy.

The hypothesis tested was that "clients whose behavior when asked to free associate is highly variable, flexible, or productive exhibit significantly greater variability when judging the extent of autokinetic movement on successive trials than Ss whose behavior at the outset of psychotherapy is highly inflexible, stereotyped, or rigid." 7 neurotic college student analysands in the extremely flexible group were matched with 10 Ss of the extremely rigid group for relevant personal variables. Sherif's autokinetic apparatus was used, and each S's judgmental variability was determined. The highly significant difference between autokinetic variability scores of the 2 groups lends strong support to the hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Teaching Morse-Code reception with signals weighted in frequency according to their difficulty.

An experimental group (N = 19) was trained to receive Morse code with signals that were weighted with respect to frequency of presentation in rough proportion to their order of difficulty for beginners. A control group (N = 19), matched on a code aptitude test performance, was trained with each signal presented an equal number of times. On the test runs, no significant differences were observed in the progress of the two groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Fifty years of polymer research

The writer summarises his researches in the field of polymer science. He began with studies of the structures of space-network and sheet polymers in crystals. Currently he is working on the structures of macro-ions in silicate and borate crystals and glasses and on the development of a new theory of structures and thermodynamic properties of (polymer and other) solutions.