Jeffrey M Lohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 209717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey M Lohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lohr |
| SIGNATURE | LOHR J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Science and Pseudoscience in Victims' Services
The role of science in community wellbeing has become marginalised in recent years. The reasons for this are manyfold, ranging from a rejection of the scientific method at an explicit level to a misunderstanding of how science works. This article will describe the ways in which the scientific method can contribute to the provision of victims' services, reasons why people might oppose the application of the scientific method, and ways to different…
Threats to Evidence-Based Treatment of Trauma: Professional Issues and Implications
The use of trauma interventions without adequate empirical support for victims of crime has become increasingly problematic over the last decade. It is proposed that pseudoscience in mental health trauma practice reflects a widening rift between research and practice. It may also be a by-product of the commercialization of the mental health profession. This article presents a discussion of the ethical and professional implications of pseudoscienc…
The Disgust Scale: Item analysis, factor structure, and suggestions for refinement.
In the 4 studies presented (N = 1,939), a converging set of analyses was conducted to evaluate the item adequacy, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Disgust Scale (DS; J. Haidt, C. McCauley, & P. Rozin, 1994). The results suggest that 7 items (i.e., Items 2, 7, 8, 21, 23, 24, and 25) should be considered for removal from the DS. Secondary to removing the items, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the DS taps…
Consistency and Accuracy of Batterer Typology Identification
An Empirical Classification of Motivations for Domestic Violence
National survey research suggests that males and females are equally likely to perpetrate domestic violence, but surveys have not examined the interpersonal context or motivation for domestic violence. The questioning of identified partner assaulters suggests that females use violence for self-defense and escape, whereas males use violence to exercise control, punish, or demand attention. The perception of perpetrator violence, however, appears a…
Social Desirability and Endorsement of Irrational Beliefs
Irrational beliefs have been proposed as causal agents in emotional disorders. Endorsement of such beliefs is positively correlated with anxiety, depression, and anger. However, measurement of irrational beliefs may reflect social-desirability bias. 159 subjects completed validated measures of irrational beliefs and a measure of social desirability. Three of nine belief scales were negatively correlated with social desirability. It is concluded t…
Reactivity of Measurement: A Single-Subject Investigation of Effects of Participant Observers
Reactivity of measurement as a major threat to validity is a very important topic in behavioral assessment. The use of participant rather than novel observers has been suggested as a strategy to reduce reactivity. However, it has also been suggested that under some circumstances use of participant observers may also produce reactivity. This study reports the single-subject investigation of the reactive effects of participant observers on the disr…
Relationship of Assertiveness and the Short Form of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: A Replication
Relationship between Suggestibility and Locus of Control of Reinforcement
Primary Waking Suggestibility and Classical Conditioning of Word Meaning
Primary waking suggestibility has been related to both instrumental and classical conditioning. The nature of language mediational processes in suggestibility is most closely connected with classical conditioning mechanisms. However, methodological and empirical difficulties render ambiguous the previous research on classical conditioning interpretations. The present study extended the procedures for language (higher-order classical) conditioning…
Relationship between Sex, Sex-Role Characteristics and Coronary-Prone Behavior in College Students
Coronary-prone behavior is most prevalent in middle-age males. The incidence of coronary-prone behavior has been attributed to employment patterns in which male sex-role characteristics of achievement are encouraged. A relationship between coronary-prone behavior and sex-role orientation is thus implied. The present study was undertaken to determine the nature of the relationship. Multiple-regression analyses showed the greatest proportion of cor…
A Disconfirmation of the Relationship between Fear of Public Speaking and Irrational Beliefs
Fear of public speaking is associated with the personality variable of trait anxiety. Trait anxiety is also associated with irrational beliefs. Therapies designed to modify irrational beliefs have been successful in reducing fear about speaking and support the hypothesis that fear about speech is mediated by irrational beliefs. However, the present study showed that only one of 10 irrational beliefs, Demand for Approval, is positively correlated …
On the Distinction between Illogical and Irrational Beliefs and Their Relationship to Anxiety
To determine the relationship between dysfunctional cognitions and anxiety, 242 undergraduates completed the Irrational Beliefs Test, the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The former is said to measure Ellis' irrational beliefs and the latter is said to measure attitudes related to Beck's measure of depressed affect. While these two scores and the anxiety measures were all significantly correlated, a canonical …
Relationship of Sex, Sex-Role Orientation and a Self-Report Measure of Assertiveness in College Students
Sex-role orientation reliably predicts several behavior patterns and personal characteristics considered to be adaptive. Persons with these characteristics have also been shown to be more assertive. The present study determined the relationship between sex-role orientation and a self-report measure of assertiveness. A multiple regression analysis showed that masculine sex-role orientation is the only single predictor of self-report measure of ass…
Retest Reliability of the Irrational Beliefs Test
Ellis ( 2 ) has proposed that subjective anxiety is a result of irrational beliefs and syllogistic reasoning processes. People draw catastrophic conclusions on the basis of irrational inferences made about problems which face them. Rational-Emotive Therapy has been developed to modify irrational beliefs and anxiety. Surprisingly, little empirical research has been directed tow>rds the measurement of irrational beliefs. At present, only one measur…
Relationship of Coronary-Prone Behavior and Irrational Beliefs in College-Age and Older Males
Coronary-prone (Pattern A) behavior is considered a generalized strategy to control stress. Irrational beliefs are also generalized expectancies regarding the nature of social and physical stressors. Therapy designed to modify irrational beliefs has been applied in the treatment of coronary-prone behavior, but there has been no demonstration of the relationship between irrational beliefs and coronary-prone behavior. College-age and older males co…
Communication Fear: A Correlational Study of Trait Generality
Recent theoretical analyses of communication fear have employed the analogy of state and trait anxiety. Communication apprehension is considered to be representative of general trait anxiety which is a function of disordered personality processes. Public speaking fear represents state anxiety and is a function of normal social evaluation anxiety. Two studies are reported which correlate state-trait measures of anxiety with communication apprehens…
Concurrent Conditioning of Evaluative Meaning and Imagery
Research indicates that evaluative word meaning and denotative meaning (imagery) are distinct mediational mechanisms and can be conditioned. It is hypothesized that the meaning‐responses can be conditioned concurrently and independently. The present study factorially varied the unconditioned stimuli for each conditioned mediational response. Results provide support for the hypotheses and additional knowledge concerning the nature of both learning…
Attitude conditioning in Sino-Tibetan languages
An Empirical Classification of Motivations for Domestic Violence
National survey research suggests that males and females are equally likely to perpetrate domestic violence, but surveys have not examined the interpersonal context or motivation for domestic violence. The questioning of identified partner assaulters suggests that females use violence for self-defense and escape, whereas males use violence to exercise control, punish, or demand attention. The perception of perpetrator violence, however, appears a…
Consistency and Accuracy of Batterer Typology Identification
Communication Fear: A Correlational Study of Trait Generality
Recent theoretical analyses of communication fear have employed the analogy of state and trait anxiety. Communication apprehension is considered to be representative of general trait anxiety which is a function of disordered personality processes. Public speaking fear represents state anxiety and is a function of normal social evaluation anxiety. Two studies are reported which correlate state-trait measures of anxiety with communication apprehens…
Attitude conditioning in Sino-Tibetan languages
Attitude conditioning in Sino-Tibetan languages
Concurrent Conditioning of Evaluative Meaning and Imagery
Research indicates that evaluative word meaning and denotative meaning (imagery) are distinct mediational mechanisms and can be conditioned. It is hypothesized that the meaning‐responses can be conditioned concurrently and independently. The present study factorially varied the unconditioned stimuli for each conditioned mediational response. Results provide support for the hypotheses and additional knowledge concerning the nature of both learning…
Relationship of Sex, Sex-Role Orientation and a Self-Report Measure of Assertiveness in College Students
Sex-role orientation reliably predicts several behavior patterns and personal characteristics considered to be adaptive. Persons with these characteristics have also been shown to be more assertive. The present study determined the relationship between sex-role orientation and a self-report measure of assertiveness. A multiple regression analysis showed that masculine sex-role orientation is the only single predictor of self-report measure of ass…
Retest Reliability of the Irrational Beliefs Test
Ellis ( 2 ) has proposed that subjective anxiety is a result of irrational beliefs and syllogistic reasoning processes. People draw catastrophic conclusions on the basis of irrational inferences made about problems which face them. Rational-Emotive Therapy has been developed to modify irrational beliefs and anxiety. Surprisingly, little empirical research has been directed tow>rds the measurement of irrational beliefs. At present, only one measur…
Relationship of Coronary-Prone Behavior and Irrational Beliefs in College-Age and Older Males
Coronary-prone (Pattern A) behavior is considered a generalized strategy to control stress. Irrational beliefs are also generalized expectancies regarding the nature of social and physical stressors. Therapy designed to modify irrational beliefs has been applied in the treatment of coronary-prone behavior, but there has been no demonstration of the relationship between irrational beliefs and coronary-prone behavior. College-age and older males co…
Communication Fear: A Correlational Study of Trait Generality
Recent theoretical analyses of communication fear have employed the analogy of state and trait anxiety. Communication apprehension is considered to be representative of general trait anxiety which is a function of disordered personality processes. Public speaking fear represents state anxiety and is a function of normal social evaluation anxiety. Two studies are reported which correlate state-trait measures of anxiety with communication apprehens…
Primary Waking Suggestibility and Classical Conditioning of Word Meaning
Primary waking suggestibility has been related to both instrumental and classical conditioning. The nature of language mediational processes in suggestibility is most closely connected with classical conditioning mechanisms. However, methodological and empirical difficulties render ambiguous the previous research on classical conditioning interpretations. The present study extended the procedures for language (higher-order classical) conditioning…
Relationship between Sex, Sex-Role Characteristics and Coronary-Prone Behavior in College Students
Coronary-prone behavior is most prevalent in middle-age males. The incidence of coronary-prone behavior has been attributed to employment patterns in which male sex-role characteristics of achievement are encouraged. A relationship between coronary-prone behavior and sex-role orientation is thus implied. The present study was undertaken to determine the nature of the relationship. Multiple-regression analyses showed the greatest proportion of cor…
A Disconfirmation of the Relationship between Fear of Public Speaking and Irrational Beliefs
Fear of public speaking is associated with the personality variable of trait anxiety. Trait anxiety is also associated with irrational beliefs. Therapies designed to modify irrational beliefs have been successful in reducing fear about speaking and support the hypothesis that fear about speech is mediated by irrational beliefs. However, the present study showed that only one of 10 irrational beliefs, Demand for Approval, is positively correlated …
On the Distinction between Illogical and Irrational Beliefs and Their Relationship to Anxiety
To determine the relationship between dysfunctional cognitions and anxiety, 242 undergraduates completed the Irrational Beliefs Test, the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The former is said to measure Ellis' irrational beliefs and the latter is said to measure attitudes related to Beck's measure of depressed affect. While these two scores and the anxiety measures were all significantly correlated, a canonical …
Relationship of Assertiveness and the Short Form of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: A Replication
Relationship between Suggestibility and Locus of Control of Reinforcement
Social Desirability and Endorsement of Irrational Beliefs
Irrational beliefs have been proposed as causal agents in emotional disorders. Endorsement of such beliefs is positively correlated with anxiety, depression, and anger. However, measurement of irrational beliefs may reflect social-desirability bias. 159 subjects completed validated measures of irrational beliefs and a measure of social desirability. Three of nine belief scales were negatively correlated with social desirability. It is concluded t…
Reactivity of Measurement: A Single-Subject Investigation of Effects of Participant Observers
Reactivity of measurement as a major threat to validity is a very important topic in behavioral assessment. The use of participant rather than novel observers has been suggested as a strategy to reduce reactivity. However, it has also been suggested that under some circumstances use of participant observers may also produce reactivity. This study reports the single-subject investigation of the reactive effects of participant observers on the disr…
An Empirical Classification of Motivations for Domestic Violence
National survey research suggests that males and females are equally likely to perpetrate domestic violence, but surveys have not examined the interpersonal context or motivation for domestic violence. The questioning of identified partner assaulters suggests that females use violence for self-defense and escape, whereas males use violence to exercise control, punish, or demand attention. The perception of perpetrator violence, however, appears a…
Consistency and Accuracy of Batterer Typology Identification
The Disgust Scale: Item analysis, factor structure, and suggestions for refinement.
In the 4 studies presented (N = 1,939), a converging set of analyses was conducted to evaluate the item adequacy, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Disgust Scale (DS; J. Haidt, C. McCauley, & P. Rozin, 1994). The results suggest that 7 items (i.e., Items 2, 7, 8, 21, 23, 24, and 25) should be considered for removal from the DS. Secondary to removing the items, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the DS taps…
Science and Pseudoscience in Victims' Services
The role of science in community wellbeing has become marginalised in recent years. The reasons for this are manyfold, ranging from a rejection of the scientific method at an explicit level to a misunderstanding of how science works. This article will describe the ways in which the scientific method can contribute to the provision of victims' services, reasons why people might oppose the application of the scientific method, and ways to different…
Threats to Evidence-Based Treatment of Trauma: Professional Issues and Implications
The use of trauma interventions without adequate empirical support for victims of crime has become increasingly problematic over the last decade. It is proposed that pseudoscience in mental health trauma practice reflects a widening rift between research and practice. It may also be a by-product of the commercialization of the mental health profession. This article presents a discussion of the ethical and professional implications of pseudoscienc…
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works)