Fraser N Watts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 304822 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fraser N Watts |
| NOMBRES | Fraser N |
| APELLIDO | Watts |
| FIRMA | WATTS F N |
| AFILIACIONES | Faculty of Divinity University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Theology and Psychology
Religion, Psychology of
Attributions in a Spiritual Healing Context
Research on religious attributions has been limited by a preoccupation with disentangling 'religious' from 'naturalistic' attributions and a failure to capture the attributions that people make in response to meaningful events. Thirty years of research has shown that even under optimum conditions religious attributions are rare compared to naturalistic ones. This research draws on unique archival materials comprising letters written to the Panace…
Psychology for Christian Ministry
"Psychology for Christian Ministry is a comprehensive and unique introduction to psychology as it is relevant to those training for and working in the clergy. Proceeding from the understanding that psychology is the discipline that illuminates those processes of personal change and growth central to religion, the volume ranges over many aspects of the subject, covering social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, a…
Psychological and Religious Perspectives on Emotion
This article is devoted to examining theoretical issues on the interface of the psychol- ogy of religion and the psychology of emotion, something which has recently been surprisingly neglected. The broad range of psychological components involved in emotion, and the importance of emotional processes in religion, make it a particularly relevant area of general psychology as far as religion is concerned. The first issue to be examined is the centra…
Phobics show poor recall of anxiety words
An experiment was conducted on recall bias between words relating to stimulus and response aspects of spider phobia. In contrast to the experiment of Watts & Coyle (1992) mixed lists were used. Whereas Watts & Coyle had found no bias of phobics between stimulus and response words, the present experiment found that phobics were relatively impaired in the recall of words relating to the anxiety response, compared with words relating to the stimulus…
Expedition stress and personality change
There have been few attempts to investigate the widespread assumption that short‐term challenges can have beneficial effects on personality. An expedition to India organized by the British Schools Exploring Society provided such an opportunity. The Gordon Personal Profile Inventory showed that the expedition was associated with increased ascendancy, emotional stability, sociability and responsibility, and decreased cautiousness. Women tended to b…
Aversion to personal body hair
A case is described of intense aversion to personal body hair on the chest, legs and arms. Exposure methods of behavioural treatment were used, combined with interpretative ones. Exposure was found to facilitate self‐exploration, which in turn led to the successful completion of exposure treatment. The circumstances under which exposure treatment can benefit from being combined with interpretative work are discussed
Associations between phenomenal and objective aspects of concentration problems in depressed patients
The paper explores a distinction between different kinds of lapse of concentration in depressed patients. The strategy is to begin with the phenomenological distinction between the mind (a) 'wandering' on to something else or (b) going 'blank'. Blanking, but not mind-wandering, is associated with longer planning times on the 'Tower of London' task. In contrast, mind-wandering but not blanking, is associated with poor memory for prose, at least un…
Colour naming of phobia-related words
A version of the Stroop test was developed which requires colour naming of spider words. Spider phobics were severely retarded on this task, but not on the conflicting colour-word Stroop or a Stroop with more general threat words. Desensitization of phobics significantly reduced interference on the Spider Stroop. A third experiment examined the retest properties of the Stroop and the value of equivalent forms. The explanation of the Spider Stroop…
Relationships between spider constructs in phobics
An index of tight construing was derived from a Kelly grid in which the elements were spiders. This index, the coefficient of concordance, corresponds to the average correlation between constructs. Concordance was significantly higher in spider phobics than controls, in line with the hypothesis that emotional disorders are associated with higher correlations between symptom‐related constructs (i.e. ‘tight’ construing). Desensitization, though it …
Strategies of clinical listening
Some of the problems that confront the clinician in seeking to comprehend patients' accounts of their problems are discussed. It must be anticipated that these will be systematically deficient, both because of limitations in patients' awareness and because of the effects of the communication situations. Several strategies of listening that are available: ( a ) attention to patients' exact language, ( b ) heuristic strategies, ( c ) selective tuni…
Clinical judgement and clinical training
The literature indicates that clinical judgement may sometimes be adversely affected by clinical training. It is suggested that this reflects qualitative changes in the modes of clinical listening, modes of inference, and relative weights given to stereotypic and individual information. A theoretical discussion of this issue focuses mainly on the hypothesis that training leads to relatively high‐risk strategies of judgement, and on the construct …
Habituation model of systematic desensitization
The structure of attitudes in psychiatric rehabilitation
There is some evidence of the predictive value of attitudes in psychiatric rehabilitation. It is suggested that the most satisfactory way of assessing relevant attitudes is through specially developed questionnaires. Data are presented about the correlational structure of such a questionnaire in both a preliminary and a revised form. It is concluded that separate scales can be constructed to measure dimensions apparently equivalent to the concept…
Desensitization as an Habituation Phenomenon
Predictions about the effect of interstimulus intervals (ISIs) in desensitization were made from the habituation model and tested with a series of Ss, each serving as his own control. Strong items desensitized faster with long ISIs, though weak items were not affected. No effects on long-term response decrements were found. A second experiment examined an interpretation of the stimulus-length effect in desensitization in terms of an extension of …
The modification of abnormal beliefs
Colour naming of phobia-related words
A version of the Stroop test was developed which requires colour naming of spider words. Spider phobics were severely retarded on this task, but not on the conflicting colour-word Stroop or a Stroop with more general threat words. Desensitization of phobics significantly reduced interference on the Spider Stroop. A third experiment examined the retest properties of the Stroop and the value of equivalent forms. The explanation of the Spider Stroop…
The modification of abnormal beliefs
Psychological and Religious Perspectives on Emotion
This article is devoted to examining theoretical issues on the interface of the psychol- ogy of religion and the psychology of emotion, something which has recently been surprisingly neglected. The broad range of psychological components involved in emotion, and the importance of emotional processes in religion, make it a particularly relevant area of general psychology as far as religion is concerned. The first issue to be examined is the centra…
Strategies of clinical listening
Some of the problems that confront the clinician in seeking to comprehend patients' accounts of their problems are discussed. It must be anticipated that these will be systematically deficient, both because of limitations in patients' awareness and because of the effects of the communication situations. Several strategies of listening that are available: ( a ) attention to patients' exact language, ( b ) heuristic strategies, ( c ) selective tuni…
Habituation model of systematic desensitization
Associations between phenomenal and objective aspects of concentration problems in depressed patients
The paper explores a distinction between different kinds of lapse of concentration in depressed patients. The strategy is to begin with the phenomenological distinction between the mind (a) 'wandering' on to something else or (b) going 'blank'. Blanking, but not mind-wandering, is associated with longer planning times on the 'Tower of London' task. In contrast, mind-wandering but not blanking, is associated with poor memory for prose, at least un…
Desensitization as an Habituation Phenomenon
Predictions about the effect of interstimulus intervals (ISIs) in desensitization were made from the habituation model and tested with a series of Ss, each serving as his own control. Strong items desensitized faster with long ISIs, though weak items were not affected. No effects on long-term response decrements were found. A second experiment examined an interpretation of the stimulus-length effect in desensitization in terms of an extension of …
The modification of abnormal beliefs
The structure of attitudes in psychiatric rehabilitation
There is some evidence of the predictive value of attitudes in psychiatric rehabilitation. It is suggested that the most satisfactory way of assessing relevant attitudes is through specially developed questionnaires. Data are presented about the correlational structure of such a questionnaire in both a preliminary and a revised form. It is concluded that separate scales can be constructed to measure dimensions apparently equivalent to the concept…
Habituation model of systematic desensitization
Clinical judgement and clinical training
The literature indicates that clinical judgement may sometimes be adversely affected by clinical training. It is suggested that this reflects qualitative changes in the modes of clinical listening, modes of inference, and relative weights given to stereotypic and individual information. A theoretical discussion of this issue focuses mainly on the hypothesis that training leads to relatively high‐risk strategies of judgement, and on the construct …
Strategies of clinical listening
Some of the problems that confront the clinician in seeking to comprehend patients' accounts of their problems are discussed. It must be anticipated that these will be systematically deficient, both because of limitations in patients' awareness and because of the effects of the communication situations. Several strategies of listening that are available: ( a ) attention to patients' exact language, ( b ) heuristic strategies, ( c ) selective tuni…
Relationships between spider constructs in phobics
An index of tight construing was derived from a Kelly grid in which the elements were spiders. This index, the coefficient of concordance, corresponds to the average correlation between constructs. Concordance was significantly higher in spider phobics than controls, in line with the hypothesis that emotional disorders are associated with higher correlations between symptom‐related constructs (i.e. ‘tight’ construing). Desensitization, though it …
Colour naming of phobia-related words
A version of the Stroop test was developed which requires colour naming of spider words. Spider phobics were severely retarded on this task, but not on the conflicting colour-word Stroop or a Stroop with more general threat words. Desensitization of phobics significantly reduced interference on the Spider Stroop. A third experiment examined the retest properties of the Stroop and the value of equivalent forms. The explanation of the Spider Stroop…
Associations between phenomenal and objective aspects of concentration problems in depressed patients
The paper explores a distinction between different kinds of lapse of concentration in depressed patients. The strategy is to begin with the phenomenological distinction between the mind (a) 'wandering' on to something else or (b) going 'blank'. Blanking, but not mind-wandering, is associated with longer planning times on the 'Tower of London' task. In contrast, mind-wandering but not blanking, is associated with poor memory for prose, at least un…
Aversion to personal body hair
A case is described of intense aversion to personal body hair on the chest, legs and arms. Exposure methods of behavioural treatment were used, combined with interpretative ones. Exposure was found to facilitate self‐exploration, which in turn led to the successful completion of exposure treatment. The circumstances under which exposure treatment can benefit from being combined with interpretative work are discussed
Expedition stress and personality change
There have been few attempts to investigate the widespread assumption that short‐term challenges can have beneficial effects on personality. An expedition to India organized by the British Schools Exploring Society provided such an opportunity. The Gordon Personal Profile Inventory showed that the expedition was associated with increased ascendancy, emotional stability, sociability and responsibility, and decreased cautiousness. Women tended to b…
Phobics show poor recall of anxiety words
An experiment was conducted on recall bias between words relating to stimulus and response aspects of spider phobia. In contrast to the experiment of Watts & Coyle (1992) mixed lists were used. Whereas Watts & Coyle had found no bias of phobics between stimulus and response words, the present experiment found that phobics were relatively impaired in the recall of words relating to the anxiety response, compared with words relating to the stimulus…
Psychological and Religious Perspectives on Emotion
This article is devoted to examining theoretical issues on the interface of the psychol- ogy of religion and the psychology of emotion, something which has recently been surprisingly neglected. The broad range of psychological components involved in emotion, and the importance of emotional processes in religion, make it a particularly relevant area of general psychology as far as religion is concerned. The first issue to be examined is the centra…
Psychology for Christian Ministry
"Psychology for Christian Ministry is a comprehensive and unique introduction to psychology as it is relevant to those training for and working in the clergy. Proceeding from the understanding that psychology is the discipline that illuminates those processes of personal change and growth central to religion, the volume ranges over many aspects of the subject, covering social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, a…
Attributions in a Spiritual Healing Context
Research on religious attributions has been limited by a preoccupation with disentangling 'religious' from 'naturalistic' attributions and a failure to capture the attributions that people make in response to meaningful events. Thirty years of research has shown that even under optimum conditions religious attributions are rare compared to naturalistic ones. This research draws on unique archival materials comprising letters written to the Panace…
Religion, Psychology of
Theology and Psychology
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