Alfred B Heilbrun

Biographic Data

ID1358789
NAMEAlfred B Heilbrun
GIVEN NAMESAlfred B
FAMILY NAMEHeilbrun
SIGNATUREHEILBRUN A B
AFFILIATIONSEmory University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
H-INDEX4

  • Attention and Disordered Eating Behavior

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Alyson L WorobowARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    The Slade model for development of anorexia nervosa proposes that the female may seek success and control in her life by pursuing a thin body through dieting when faced with serious personal problems. Extending upon this model, the present program of research has sought to identify those characteristics of women generally at-risk for anorexia nervosa that would make dieting behavior especially successful, permitting the progression from food rest…

  • Attention and Disordered Eating Behavior

    Open AccessAlfred B HeilbrunARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    The Slade model for development of anorexia nervosa proposes that the female may seek success and control in her life by pursuing a thin body through dieting when faced with serious personal problems. Extending upon this model, the present program of research has sought to identify those characteristics of women generally at-risk for anorexia nervosa that would make dieting behavior especially successful, permitting the progression from food rest…

  • Distorted Body Image as a Risk Factor in Anorexia Nervosa

    Alfred B Heilbrun, Nancy WittARTICLEPsychological Reports1990

    This study replicated the results of an earlier one in which college women showing psychological similarities to anorexics indicated an unrealistically larger body-image relative to controls but only if they were relatively thin. This kind of perceptual enhancement was not found when inanimate objects were rated. The proposal that an enhanced body image plays a dynamic role in motivating food restraint (and may increase the risk of becoming anore…

  • The Female Role and Menstrual Distress

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Lisa Friedberg et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly1990Cited by: 1

    Numerous studies of either sex role behavior (masculinity/femininity) or women's role attitudes (contemporary/traditional) as related to menstrual distress have amassed inconsistent and contradictory results. It was proposed that these two role variables may hold an interactive relationship with menstrual distress, and their study in isolation may have provoked less reliable results. An interaction was found with masculine women preferring a cont…

  • Type A, Locus of Control, and Stress

    Open AccessAlfred B HeilbrunARTICLEPsychological Reports1989

    It has been recommended that a stress measure be included in studies seeking to clarify the Type A behavior pattern to identify moderator effects. This was tested, and a stress-moderating effect of externality among Type As was found along with the absence of relation between Type A status and locus of control

  • Sex role correlates of stress-prone type a behavior in college students

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Dawna Wydra et al.ARTICLESex Roles1989References: 3

  • Antisociality and Dangerousness in Women before and after the Women's Movement

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, David M GottfriedARTICLEPsychological Reports1988

    Women committing crimes before the surge of feminism (1965–1971) and long after this movement attracted national attention (1980–1985) were sampled. Greater antisociality in female criminals during the prefeminist period was associated with more dangerous crime, but predictability was lost by 1980–1985. It was suggested that rejection of role expectations inspired by feminism may have altered the determinants of dangerous crime in women

  • Personality underlying motivation for type A behavior in late adolescents

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Lisa Friedberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence1988References: 10

  • Erotic value of female distress in sexually explicit photographs

    Alfred B Heilbrun, David T SeifARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research1988Cited by: 2References: 1

    The extent to which distress of the female model contributed to the erotic value of sexually explicit photographs of women in bondage was studied for a sample of 54 young-adult college males. In addition, subjects were categorized by level of antisociality and level of facial-decoding skill with the prediction that the erotic value of a model in distress would be greatest for subjects departing most from social values (antisociality) and most cap…

  • Psychological defences and menstrual distress

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Diane RenertARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1988

    Two studies considered the possible role of psychological defences and defensive awareness in the distress reported by women during the menstrual (flow) period and during the week before menstruation. Unconscious rationalization was associated with the least distress at both times among college women. The same defensive pattern also was found to be related to less menstrual and premenstrual distress among women reporting the symptoms of premenstr…

  • The second androgyny

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Constance M MulqueenARTICLESex Roles1987Cited by: 3References: 6

  • Type a Behavior, Cognitive Defense, and Stress

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Diane RenertARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

    This study considered the possible moderator effects of three cognitive variables—repression, awareness of defense, and breadth of scanning—upon the relationship between Type A behavior and stress. Type A college subjects of both sexes did not report significantly more stress than Type B students. However, (1) repression, (2) lack of awareness, and (3) narrow scanning served moderator roles for Type A subjects; each, considered singly or in combi…

  • Sex Differences in the Adaptive Value of Androgyny

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Yu Ling HanARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

    Androgynous blending of masculine and feminine behaviors was found to be positively related to androgynous sex-typing in 47 college women but not in 45 college men. However, of the two forms of androgyny, only blending was inversely related to stress in women; neither held functional significance for men

  • Androgyny as type and androgyny as behavior

    Open AccessAlfred B HeilbrunARTICLESex Roles1986Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Independence of masculine and feminine traits

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Becky A BaileyARTICLESex Roles1986Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The role of sadism and peer pressure in the sexual aggression of male college students

    Alfred B Heilbrun, Maura P LoftusARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research1986Cited by: 9References: 5

    Two types of motivational models help explain sexual aggression in college men. Socialization models emphasize imperatives of the male sex role, whereas a sadistic model focuses on increased sexual stimulation from female distress. These models were evaluated by comparing the relationship between a measure of sexual sadism and the frequency of sexually aggressive episodes with the relationship between peer pressure for sexual intimacy and sexual …

  • Psychological vulnerability to alcoholism

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Joselyn C Cassidy et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1986

    Three studies considered the predispositional role of impaired internal scanning in alcoholism. Scanning represents the person's sensitivity to internal stimulation and the extent to which the person utilizes internally generated information. The first study found that more acute alcoholic patients displayed poorer scanning than more chronic alcoholics. This finding contra‐indicates deficit scanning as an effect of alcoholism and suggests that th…

  • Awareness of cognitive defences and stress management

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Victoria PepeARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1985Cited by: 1

    There is considerable disagreement regarding whether defences operate unconsciouly, represent deliberate styles of coping with problems, or fall somewhere between. The present study considered the role of awareness in mediating the relation between defence and stress by establishing whether the conscious or unconscious nature of a given defence was associated with a distinct level of stress. The results for projection and rationalization confirme…

  • Cognitive Defenses and Life Stress

    Open AccessAlfred B HeilbrunARTICLEPsychological Reports1984

    Lazarus proposed that defensive behaviors may be detrimental to long-term stress management to the extent that they interfere with direct stress-coping strategies. Two studies considered this proposal for four cognitive defenses—projection, repression, rationalization, and denial—as well as the role of internal scanning as a moderator variable. Projection and denial were positively related to stress level over a 1-yr. period supporting the Lazaru…

  • Cost-Effectiveness of College Achievement by Androgynous Men and Women

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Yu Ling HanARTICLEPsychological Reports1984

    Androgynous college women ( n = 20) were superior in academic achievement to nonandrogynous women ( n = 20), and the better achievement was not associated with excessive stress. There was no achievement difference between androgynous ( n = 15) and nonandrogynous ( n = 16) men

  • Sex-based models of androgyny

    Alfred B HeilbrunARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1984Cited by: 6References: 2

  • Scoring Androgyny as a Continuous Variable

    Open AccessAlfred B HeilbrunARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

  • Sex-gender differences in level of androgyny

    Open AccessAlfred B Heilbrun, Harvey L SchwartzARTICLESex Roles1982Cited by: 3References: 1

  • Gender differences in the functional linkage between androgyny, social cognition, and competence

    Alfred B HeilbrunARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1981

  • Prediction of Continuing Client Contact in a Brief-Treatment Campus Mental Health Agency

    Open AccessAlfred B HeilbrunARTICLEPsychological Reports1978

    The ability of the Counseling Readiness Scales to predict the number of sessions spent in short-term counseling or brief psychotherapy within a university mental health service was confirmed. Highly ready clients spent more time in both than those low on readiness. Significant positive correlations between number of sessions and rated improvement of clients within both short-term modes of treatment suggest the practical utility of measurement of …