Bernard Tursky
Biographic Data
| ID | 289955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Tursky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Tursky |
| SIGNATURE | TURSKY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Biofeedback: "Research, training, and clinical roles": Commentary on Roberts
Biofeedback: "Research, training, and clinical roles": Commentary on Roberts
Joseph Tanenhaus
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On the Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion in Survey Research
Virtually all we as social scientists claim to know about the strength of political beliefs and preferences is based on category scaling. When category and magnitude scales of opinion strength are compared-either in measuring the perceived strength of physical stimuli or in the evaluation of social-psychological stimuli-magnitude scaling is almost invariably found to be superior in terms of providing quantitative information about the intensity o…
Comparisons between Category and Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion Employing SRC/CPS Items
The measurement technique most commonly used by political scientists for determining the direction and intensity of opinion is category scaling-a procedure with serious weaknesses. Recent developments in psychophysics for the magnitude scaling and validation of sensory eontinua offer a powerful alternative to category scaling. Paralleling explicitly the logic and procedures used to scale psychophysically such variables as the loudness of sound an…
Evaluation of the cognitive component of political issues by use of classical conditioning
The direct use of verbal and physiological response measures to assess the cognitive component of a sociopolitical attitude is made difficult by the multiple meanings of sociopolitical stimuli. In the present study a modified differential classical conditioning procedure was used to produce an unambiguous physiological (skin conductance) response to stimuli related to a discrete social concept (black relatedness and not black relatedness). It was…
The calibration and cross-modal validation of ratio scales of political opinion in survey research
The Psychophysical Scaling and Validation of a Political Support Scale
The aims of this paper are twofold: first, to illustrate the utility of psychophysical scaling methods in building reliable and valid scales of social opinion, and second, to report research findings on the development and validation of a scale for measuring support for political phenomena. The scaling experiments reported here provide compelling evidence of the successful extension of psychophysics from the measurement of sensory phenomena to th…
Learned Control of Cardiovascular Integration in Man Through Operant Conditioning
In previous research, it has been shown that subjects can learn to increase or decrease their systolic blood pressure without corresponding changes in heart rate, or they can learn to increase or decrease their heart rate without corresponding changes in blood pressure. The present paper outlines a method for directly conditioning a combination of two autonomic responses. A system was developed which, at each heart cycle, determines on line wheth…
Self-control and predictability: Their effects on reactions to aversive stimulation
Smoking on Cue: A Behavioral Approach to Smoking Reduction
David Shapiro, Gary E. Schwartz, Bernard Tursky, Susan R. Shnidman, Smoking on Cue: A Behavioral Approach to Smoking Reduction, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1971), pp. 108-113
Differentiation of Heart Rate and Systolic Blood Pressure in Man by Operant Conditioning
Human heart rate-systolic blood pressure decoupling was tested by operant conditioning procedures. Twenty normal male subjects were given feedback of their heart rate, half operantly reinforced for increasing and half for decreasing their heart rate, while systolic blood pressure was continuously monitored. Significant heart rate conditioning was obtained in a single session without concomitant effects on blood pressure. Further analyses of the b…
Abnormalities in Skin Potential Fluctuations During the Sleep of Acute Schizophrenic Patients
Spontaneous skin potential fluctuations (SPF) were recorded during the sleep of 8 acute schizophrenic patients and 6 normal volunteers. While in normals the SPFs decreased during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and were most numerous during Stages III and IV, the acute schizophrenics had the greatest number of SPFs during REM sleep and waking, and fewest during Stages III and IV sleep. It is hypothesized that this effect represents a lack of norma…
Body Image, Anxiety, and Tolerance for Experimental Pain
Tolerance for pain resulting from a controlled electric shock to the forearm was studied in relation to body image and anxiety. A significant positive correlation was found between pain tolerance and definiteness of body boundaries. A significant negative correlation was found between Holtzman's modification of the Elizur Rorschach Content Scale and pain tolerance. However, pain tolerance was not correlated with a more focused measure of body anx…
Comparisons between Category and Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion Employing SRC/CPS Items
The measurement technique most commonly used by political scientists for determining the direction and intensity of opinion is category scaling-a procedure with serious weaknesses. Recent developments in psychophysics for the magnitude scaling and validation of sensory eontinua offer a powerful alternative to category scaling. Paralleling explicitly the logic and procedures used to scale psychophysically such variables as the loudness of sound an…
On the Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion in Survey Research
Virtually all we as social scientists claim to know about the strength of political beliefs and preferences is based on category scaling. When category and magnitude scales of opinion strength are compared-either in measuring the perceived strength of physical stimuli or in the evaluation of social-psychological stimuli-magnitude scaling is almost invariably found to be superior in terms of providing quantitative information about the intensity o…
Self-control and predictability: Their effects on reactions to aversive stimulation
The Psychophysical Scaling and Validation of a Political Support Scale
The aims of this paper are twofold: first, to illustrate the utility of psychophysical scaling methods in building reliable and valid scales of social opinion, and second, to report research findings on the development and validation of a scale for measuring support for political phenomena. The scaling experiments reported here provide compelling evidence of the successful extension of psychophysics from the measurement of sensory phenomena to th…
The calibration and cross-modal validation of ratio scales of political opinion in survey research
Evaluation of the cognitive component of political issues by use of classical conditioning
The direct use of verbal and physiological response measures to assess the cognitive component of a sociopolitical attitude is made difficult by the multiple meanings of sociopolitical stimuli. In the present study a modified differential classical conditioning procedure was used to produce an unambiguous physiological (skin conductance) response to stimuli related to a discrete social concept (black relatedness and not black relatedness). It was…
Smoking on Cue: A Behavioral Approach to Smoking Reduction
David Shapiro, Gary E. Schwartz, Bernard Tursky, Susan R. Shnidman, Smoking on Cue: A Behavioral Approach to Smoking Reduction, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1971), pp. 108-113
Body Image, Anxiety, and Tolerance for Experimental Pain
Tolerance for pain resulting from a controlled electric shock to the forearm was studied in relation to body image and anxiety. A significant positive correlation was found between pain tolerance and definiteness of body boundaries. A significant negative correlation was found between Holtzman's modification of the Elizur Rorschach Content Scale and pain tolerance. However, pain tolerance was not correlated with a more focused measure of body anx…
Differentiation of Heart Rate and Systolic Blood Pressure in Man by Operant Conditioning
Human heart rate-systolic blood pressure decoupling was tested by operant conditioning procedures. Twenty normal male subjects were given feedback of their heart rate, half operantly reinforced for increasing and half for decreasing their heart rate, while systolic blood pressure was continuously monitored. Significant heart rate conditioning was obtained in a single session without concomitant effects on blood pressure. Further analyses of the b…
Abnormalities in Skin Potential Fluctuations During the Sleep of Acute Schizophrenic Patients
Spontaneous skin potential fluctuations (SPF) were recorded during the sleep of 8 acute schizophrenic patients and 6 normal volunteers. While in normals the SPFs decreased during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and were most numerous during Stages III and IV, the acute schizophrenics had the greatest number of SPFs during REM sleep and waking, and fewest during Stages III and IV sleep. It is hypothesized that this effect represents a lack of norma…
Learned Control of Cardiovascular Integration in Man Through Operant Conditioning
In previous research, it has been shown that subjects can learn to increase or decrease their systolic blood pressure without corresponding changes in heart rate, or they can learn to increase or decrease their heart rate without corresponding changes in blood pressure. The present paper outlines a method for directly conditioning a combination of two autonomic responses. A system was developed which, at each heart cycle, determines on line wheth…
Self-control and predictability: Their effects on reactions to aversive stimulation
Smoking on Cue: A Behavioral Approach to Smoking Reduction
David Shapiro, Gary E. Schwartz, Bernard Tursky, Susan R. Shnidman, Smoking on Cue: A Behavioral Approach to Smoking Reduction, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1971), pp. 108-113
The Psychophysical Scaling and Validation of a Political Support Scale
The aims of this paper are twofold: first, to illustrate the utility of psychophysical scaling methods in building reliable and valid scales of social opinion, and second, to report research findings on the development and validation of a scale for measuring support for political phenomena. The scaling experiments reported here provide compelling evidence of the successful extension of psychophysics from the measurement of sensory phenomena to th…
Evaluation of the cognitive component of political issues by use of classical conditioning
The direct use of verbal and physiological response measures to assess the cognitive component of a sociopolitical attitude is made difficult by the multiple meanings of sociopolitical stimuli. In the present study a modified differential classical conditioning procedure was used to produce an unambiguous physiological (skin conductance) response to stimuli related to a discrete social concept (black relatedness and not black relatedness). It was…
The calibration and cross-modal validation of ratio scales of political opinion in survey research
Comparisons between Category and Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion Employing SRC/CPS Items
The measurement technique most commonly used by political scientists for determining the direction and intensity of opinion is category scaling-a procedure with serious weaknesses. Recent developments in psychophysics for the magnitude scaling and validation of sensory eontinua offer a powerful alternative to category scaling. Paralleling explicitly the logic and procedures used to scale psychophysically such variables as the loudness of sound an…
Joseph Tanenhaus
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
On the Magnitude Scaling of Political Opinion in Survey Research
Virtually all we as social scientists claim to know about the strength of political beliefs and preferences is based on category scaling. When category and magnitude scales of opinion strength are compared-either in measuring the perceived strength of physical stimuli or in the evaluation of social-psychological stimuli-magnitude scaling is almost invariably found to be superior in terms of providing quantitative information about the intensity o…
Biofeedback: "Research, training, and clinical roles": Commentary on Roberts
Biofeedback: "Research, training, and clinical roles": Commentary on Roberts
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