Peter W Sheehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter W Sheehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheehan |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEHAN P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hypnotic control of attention in the Stroop task: A historical footnote
Anticipations ahead for psychology: Looking from past to future
This paper examines some of the origins and trends in the discipline and profession of psychology in Australia, and imbeds discussion of them in a cultural context. Some of the major pressures on the discipline and profession are outlined, discussed, and tied to developments which are relevant to the Australian Psychological Society, and the higher education sector in Australia as a whole. Major issues of concern to psychologists are summarised a…
Psychology as a science and a profession: An Australian perspective
The practices and needs in psychological training (Nixon, 1994) in member countries of IUPsyS. are examined on a number of key issues that relate meaningfully to the development of psychology as a science and as a profession in Australia. One such issue is the ratio of applied to basic science, this issue being associated with the model of professional training adopted in Australia which is heavily scientist-practitioner. Developments in the reco…
Ethical issues in forensic hypnosis
The conduct and/or evaluation of forensic hypnosis sessions raises several sensitive ethical issues. We aim to provide a schematic framework in which to consider some of the major issues. The three major issues discussed in detail concern the position adopted about forensic hypnosis, the consequences of involving oneself in forensic hypnosis, and the nature of one's involvement in the legal system. We argue that professionals need to have a clear…
Pseudomemory effects and their relationship to level of susceptibility to hypnosis and state instruction
Censorship of videos: Analysis of practices in the industry
The present study examined six video cassette rental stores in Brisbane, Australia. Comparisons were made regarding volume of stock, methods of display, and clarity of the censorship classification system on the fronts of covers of videos that were displayed. In one of the stores, hirers' attitudes and the reasons for their borrowings were investigated directly for PG-and M-rated videos. Results suggest the existence of an inverse relationship be…
Reports of forensic hypnosis: A critical analysis
Because public opinion is substantially influenced by the media, a content analysis was conducted of newspaper reports of the use of hypnosis in criminal investigation. Analysis focused on the quantitative and qualitative information in reports about particular cases in terms of the location of the crime, year of the crime, type of crime, status of the subject, status of the hypnotist, and the value of hypnosis; analysis also focused on the infor…
Television Reports of Forensic Hypnosis: What's on the News
This paper presents a content analysis of television news and current affairs reports of forensic hypnosis focusing on the information conveyed about the nature of hypnosis, the introduction of hypnosis to criminal investigation, the impact of hypnosis on memory, the usefulness of hypnosis in criminal investigation, and the recognition of potential problems associated with forensic hypnosis. Findings indicate that the reports conveyed simplistic …
Forensic hypnosis: Current legislation and its relevance to practice
This article reviews current Acts concerning the practice of hypnosis, and reports findings from a survey of Boards' views concerning the use of hypnosis to refresh the memory of witnesses or victims of crime. There is variation in the way that hypnosis is defined and regulated, and in the degree to which the Acts are applicable to the use of hypnosis in the forensic setting. A central issue in understanding the relevance of current legislation t…
Hypnotically induced pseudomemories: Sampling their conditions among hypnotizable subjects
Three studies are reported in a program of research that investigated a range of parameters affecting individual differences in the incidence of hypnotically induced pseudomemory among hypnotizable subjects. Study 1 replicated Laurence and Perry's (1983b) base rates for hypnotically induced pseudomemory response among hypnotizable subjects; in Study 2 the same response was analyzed under more strictly controlled stimulus conditions. Study 3 was a…
Coping with exposure to aggression: The path from research to practice
Research findings and theory related to the effects of filmed violence on children are examined and discussed. The overall theme is bridging the gap between research and practice with particular emphasis on the control of material that deals with both televised and video-filmed violence. Findings are related to practical decisions about public access to such material and issues are outlined to illustrate major points of difference between pure an…
Violence content in Australian television
The present study reports a content analysis of 80 programs shown on Brisbane TV in 1981. Programs were shown as part of a larger longitudinal study on the relationship between TV violence viewing and aggressiveness in children (Sheehan, 1993). Rating procedures were based on Gerbner's Message System Analysis methodology and allowed reliable observations of programming content. The major unit of violence analysis was the “violent episode” and pri…
The australian journal of psychology: The first 30 years
Material appearing in the Australian Journal of Psychology was examined for the period 1949 to 1978. Over the three decades changes were identified in the structural characteristics of the articles, their source and patterns of authorship, methods used, groups studied, and content areas investigated. A number of trends emerged. There was an increase in the number of contributors from universities, especially from within Australia. Males continue …
Secondary therapist variables operating in short‐term insight‐oriented, and behaviour therapy
Three therapists from a short‐term insight orientation and three practising behaviour therapy each provided treatment to five clients over a three‐month course of therapy. Measurement of therapists' attitudes was taken at the beginning of treatment, at the mid‐point, and at the conclusion of therapy, and tapped the therapist's attitude towards the suitability of the treatment administered, the patient's attitude toward the therapist (as perceived…
Electromyograph biofeedback as a relaxation technique: A critical appraisal and reassessment
Electromyograph biofeedback as a relaxation technique: A critical appraisal and reassessment
Imagery encouragement, absorption capacity, and relaxation during electromyograph biofeedback
This study focused on individual differences in subjects' capacities for absorption and examined the effects of instructions designed to encourage the use of imaginal processes during electromyography (EMG) biofeedback. Twenty-four high-absorption and 24 low-absorption subjects were assigned to either a biofeedback condition. Each subject participated in two sessions of testing. Results showed that instructional manipulation of imaginal strategie…
The Australian Psychologist: The first 12 years
The content of the Australian Psychologist was examined for a 12‐year period. Among topics investigated were the journal's composition, authorship patterns, and authors' affiliation. In addition, the methodology, group selected, and subject area studied were also identified for each article. Although changes have occurred the typical article is likely to be authored by a male academic psychologist; his methodology is empirical; and the work repor…
Psychology as a profession and the australian psychological society
Analysis of the report of the royal commission on human relationships
The Human Subject: A Study of Individual Experimental Participation
Intensive analysis of subjects' individual perceptions of an experimental task was conducted in distinctly different contexts of testing. Independent sets of subjects were tested individually in a rapport-inducing context (defined as collaborative) and a traditional context of research engagement (defined as contractual). Collaborative subjects were either known before hand or not known beforehand by the experimenter who tested them. The task was…
Report on hypnotherapy clinics and their function
Cognitive flexibility in hypnosis Responses to change communication from the hypnotist
It was predicted that modification of response as it indexes cognitive flexibility in the hypnotic subject is related to susceptibility to hypnosis and the difficulty of the hypnotic task attempted. Experiment 1 isolated two distinct hypnotic tasks (easy and difficult); alternative forms of each item conveyed either clear or unclear structure concerning the response that was perceived as most appropriate. In Experiment 2, 101 subjects were admini…
Artifact and Barber's model of hypnosis: A logical-empirical analysis
Some ambiguities in the escape from the ambiguous: Reply
Occurrence of posthypnotic behavior outside the experimental setting
Psychology as a profession and the australian psychological society
Anticipations ahead for psychology: Looking from past to future
This paper examines some of the origins and trends in the discipline and profession of psychology in Australia, and imbeds discussion of them in a cultural context. Some of the major pressures on the discipline and profession are outlined, discussed, and tied to developments which are relevant to the Australian Psychological Society, and the higher education sector in Australia as a whole. Major issues of concern to psychologists are summarised a…
Psychology as a science and a profession: An Australian perspective
The practices and needs in psychological training (Nixon, 1994) in member countries of IUPsyS. are examined on a number of key issues that relate meaningfully to the development of psychology as a science and as a profession in Australia. One such issue is the ratio of applied to basic science, this issue being associated with the model of professional training adopted in Australia which is heavily scientist-practitioner. Developments in the reco…
Pseudomemory effects and their relationship to level of susceptibility to hypnosis and state instruction
Coping with exposure to aggression: The path from research to practice
Research findings and theory related to the effects of filmed violence on children are examined and discussed. The overall theme is bridging the gap between research and practice with particular emphasis on the control of material that deals with both televised and video-filmed violence. Findings are related to practical decisions about public access to such material and issues are outlined to illustrate major points of difference between pure an…
Violence content in Australian television
The present study reports a content analysis of 80 programs shown on Brisbane TV in 1981. Programs were shown as part of a larger longitudinal study on the relationship between TV violence viewing and aggressiveness in children (Sheehan, 1993). Rating procedures were based on Gerbner's Message System Analysis methodology and allowed reliable observations of programming content. The major unit of violence analysis was the “violent episode” and pri…
Imagery encouragement, absorption capacity, and relaxation during electromyograph biofeedback
This study focused on individual differences in subjects' capacities for absorption and examined the effects of instructions designed to encourage the use of imaginal processes during electromyography (EMG) biofeedback. Twenty-four high-absorption and 24 low-absorption subjects were assigned to either a biofeedback condition. Each subject participated in two sessions of testing. Results showed that instructional manipulation of imaginal strategie…
Ethical issues in forensic hypnosis
The conduct and/or evaluation of forensic hypnosis sessions raises several sensitive ethical issues. We aim to provide a schematic framework in which to consider some of the major issues. The three major issues discussed in detail concern the position adopted about forensic hypnosis, the consequences of involving oneself in forensic hypnosis, and the nature of one's involvement in the legal system. We argue that professionals need to have a clear…
Reports of forensic hypnosis: A critical analysis
Because public opinion is substantially influenced by the media, a content analysis was conducted of newspaper reports of the use of hypnosis in criminal investigation. Analysis focused on the quantitative and qualitative information in reports about particular cases in terms of the location of the crime, year of the crime, type of crime, status of the subject, status of the hypnotist, and the value of hypnosis; analysis also focused on the infor…
The Australian Psychologist: The first 12 years
The content of the Australian Psychologist was examined for a 12‐year period. Among topics investigated were the journal's composition, authorship patterns, and authors' affiliation. In addition, the methodology, group selected, and subject area studied were also identified for each article. Although changes have occurred the typical article is likely to be authored by a male academic psychologist; his methodology is empirical; and the work repor…
The Human Subject: A Study of Individual Experimental Participation
Intensive analysis of subjects' individual perceptions of an experimental task was conducted in distinctly different contexts of testing. Independent sets of subjects were tested individually in a rapport-inducing context (defined as collaborative) and a traditional context of research engagement (defined as contractual). Collaborative subjects were either known before hand or not known beforehand by the experimenter who tested them. The task was…
Escape from the ambiguous: Artifact and methodologies of hypnosis
Some Variables Affecting the Vividness of Imagery in Recall
Several variables were studied as they relate to vividness of imagery in recall. Thirty‐two subjects, pre‐selected for high and low imagery, worked with two types of block designs. With one type they were repeatedly asked either to summon up visual images and copy them, or else to recall the designs with the aid of imagery and other resources of memory. The results showed no differences in accuracy between the two groups of subjects, but the bett…
Visual Imagery and the Organizational Properties of Perceived Stimuli
Seventy‐two subjects constructed blocks to indicate their perceptions and imagery of geometrical patterns which varied in their meaningfulness and stimulus complexity. It was hypothesized that vivid and poor imagers process visual information differently and that their styles of perception lead to differences in retentive behaviour. Results supported the hypothesis that vivid imagers perceive literally while poor imagers use coding devices to org…
Occurrence of posthypnotic behavior outside the experimental setting
E -Expectancy and the Role of Awareness in Verbal Conditioning
Different groups of Es were led to expect that verbal conditioning either could or could not occur without awareness. Both groups tested independent sets of 19 Ss who constructed 100 sentences beginning with one of six pronouns and containing a past tense verb. For experimental Ss sentences beginning with I or We were reinforced by the word “good.” Conditioning effects were as predicted by the expectancies of Es. Ss who were unaware of the correc…
Some Variables Affecting the Vividness of Imagery in Recall
Several variables were studied as they relate to vividness of imagery in recall. Thirty‐two subjects, pre‐selected for high and low imagery, worked with two types of block designs. With one type they were repeatedly asked either to summon up visual images and copy them, or else to recall the designs with the aid of imagery and other resources of memory. The results showed no differences in accuracy between the two groups of subjects, but the bett…
Factors Affecting Mediation of E -Bias Effects in Verbal Operant Conditioning
Three studies investigated the mediation of E-bias effects on the relationship between awareness and verbal conditioning. The hypotheses were tested that such effects are determined in part by: (i) the personality of E, (ii) E's knowledge of S's conditioning performance, and (iii) the closeness of contact between the biasing authority and Es being biased. Results for a Taffel-type conditioning task supported the last two hypotheses but not the fi…
The Role of Imagery in Incidental Learning
Incidental (INC) and intentional (INT) subjects were given one of two orientating tasks requiring response to 18 high‐imagery (I) and 18 low‐imagery (N‐I) noun stimuli equated for m and frequency of usage. The subjects either responded with a set to image stimuli at inspection (IMG set) or responded to stimuli in terms of their familiarity (FAM set). Independent groups of 18 subjects were allocated to each of the four experimental conditions and …
Escape from the ambiguous: Artifact and methodologies of hypnosis
Artifact and Barber's model of hypnosis: A logical-empirical analysis
Some ambiguities in the escape from the ambiguous: Reply
Report on hypnotherapy clinics and their function
Cognitive flexibility in hypnosis Responses to change communication from the hypnotist
It was predicted that modification of response as it indexes cognitive flexibility in the hypnotic subject is related to susceptibility to hypnosis and the difficulty of the hypnotic task attempted. Experiment 1 isolated two distinct hypnotic tasks (easy and difficult); alternative forms of each item conveyed either clear or unclear structure concerning the response that was perceived as most appropriate. In Experiment 2, 101 subjects were admini…
The Human Subject: A Study of Individual Experimental Participation
Intensive analysis of subjects' individual perceptions of an experimental task was conducted in distinctly different contexts of testing. Independent sets of subjects were tested individually in a rapport-inducing context (defined as collaborative) and a traditional context of research engagement (defined as contractual). Collaborative subjects were either known before hand or not known beforehand by the experimenter who tested them. The task was…
Psychology as a profession and the australian psychological society
Analysis of the report of the royal commission on human relationships
The Australian Psychologist: The first 12 years
The content of the Australian Psychologist was examined for a 12‐year period. Among topics investigated were the journal's composition, authorship patterns, and authors' affiliation. In addition, the methodology, group selected, and subject area studied were also identified for each article. Although changes have occurred the typical article is likely to be authored by a male academic psychologist; his methodology is empirical; and the work repor…
Electromyograph biofeedback as a relaxation technique: A critical appraisal and reassessment
Electromyograph biofeedback as a relaxation technique: A critical appraisal and reassessment
Imagery encouragement, absorption capacity, and relaxation during electromyograph biofeedback
This study focused on individual differences in subjects' capacities for absorption and examined the effects of instructions designed to encourage the use of imaginal processes during electromyography (EMG) biofeedback. Twenty-four high-absorption and 24 low-absorption subjects were assigned to either a biofeedback condition. Each subject participated in two sessions of testing. Results showed that instructional manipulation of imaginal strategie…
Secondary therapist variables operating in short‐term insight‐oriented, and behaviour therapy
Three therapists from a short‐term insight orientation and three practising behaviour therapy each provided treatment to five clients over a three‐month course of therapy. Measurement of therapists' attitudes was taken at the beginning of treatment, at the mid‐point, and at the conclusion of therapy, and tapped the therapist's attitude towards the suitability of the treatment administered, the patient's attitude toward the therapist (as perceived…
The australian journal of psychology: The first 30 years
Material appearing in the Australian Journal of Psychology was examined for the period 1949 to 1978. Over the three decades changes were identified in the structural characteristics of the articles, their source and patterns of authorship, methods used, groups studied, and content areas investigated. A number of trends emerged. There was an increase in the number of contributors from universities, especially from within Australia. Males continue …
Violence content in Australian television
The present study reports a content analysis of 80 programs shown on Brisbane TV in 1981. Programs were shown as part of a larger longitudinal study on the relationship between TV violence viewing and aggressiveness in children (Sheehan, 1993). Rating procedures were based on Gerbner's Message System Analysis methodology and allowed reliable observations of programming content. The major unit of violence analysis was the “violent episode” and pri…
Coping with exposure to aggression: The path from research to practice
Research findings and theory related to the effects of filmed violence on children are examined and discussed. The overall theme is bridging the gap between research and practice with particular emphasis on the control of material that deals with both televised and video-filmed violence. Findings are related to practical decisions about public access to such material and issues are outlined to illustrate major points of difference between pure an…
Forensic hypnosis: Current legislation and its relevance to practice
This article reviews current Acts concerning the practice of hypnosis, and reports findings from a survey of Boards' views concerning the use of hypnosis to refresh the memory of witnesses or victims of crime. There is variation in the way that hypnosis is defined and regulated, and in the degree to which the Acts are applicable to the use of hypnosis in the forensic setting. A central issue in understanding the relevance of current legislation t…
Hypnotically induced pseudomemories: Sampling their conditions among hypnotizable subjects
Three studies are reported in a program of research that investigated a range of parameters affecting individual differences in the incidence of hypnotically induced pseudomemory among hypnotizable subjects. Study 1 replicated Laurence and Perry's (1983b) base rates for hypnotically induced pseudomemory response among hypnotizable subjects; in Study 2 the same response was analyzed under more strictly controlled stimulus conditions. Study 3 was a…
Censorship of videos: Analysis of practices in the industry
The present study examined six video cassette rental stores in Brisbane, Australia. Comparisons were made regarding volume of stock, methods of display, and clarity of the censorship classification system on the fronts of covers of videos that were displayed. In one of the stores, hirers' attitudes and the reasons for their borrowings were investigated directly for PG-and M-rated videos. Results suggest the existence of an inverse relationship be…
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