Joel Weinberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4235871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Weinberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinberger |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBERGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adelphi University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8544-0828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The unconscious: History, research, neurocognitive models, and clinical implications
The place of the normative unconscious in psychoanalytic theory and practice
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This chapter reviews psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory and practice from both the clinical and research perspectives. The first half of the chapter focuses on the clinical history of and the various approaches to psychoanalysis. We begin with efforts to differentiate between psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches. Next, we focus on theoretical developments and their practice implications for different schools of psychoanalysis. The schools…
Less is more: The effects of very brief versus clearly visible exposure
This study compared the effects of exposure to masked and unmasked phobic stimuli on phobic behavior. Participants were identified as spider-phobic with a questionnaire and a Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT) with a live tarantula (N = 101). One week later, they were administered one of three types of exposure: very brief (25 ms) or clearly visible (120 ms) images of spiders, or very brief images of flowers. They reported ratings of subjective dist…
What you cannot see can help you: The effect of exposure to unreportable stimuli on approach behavior
Investigating Merger: Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation and Oneness Motivation Research
Two programs of empirical research have endeavored to explicate some of the unconscious processes involved in adult phenomena of merger, symbiosis, or oneness. Starting in the 1960s under the leadership of Lloyd Silverman (see, e.g., Silverman, Lachmann, and Milich 1982), subliminal psychodynamic activation (SPA) has used subliminal methods to prime and manipulate these processes. Later research into what was termed oneness motivation (OM) posite…
Examining the relationship between current attachment status and freely recalled autobiographical memories of childhood
This study investigated the relationship between individual differences in attach-ment and the free recall of childhood memories. Specifically, it focuses on how attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, using the Experiences in Close Relationship Scale self-report, relate to the affective quality and the presence of caregivers in memories from childhood. Participants were 79 undergraduate and masters students attending a northeast university.…
Very brief exposure: The effects of unreportable stimuli on fearful behavior
Rats, We Should Have Used Clinton: Subliminal Priming in Political Campaigns
Political strategists decide daily how to market their candidates. Growing recognition of the importance of implicit processes (processes occurring outside of awareness) suggests limitations to focus groups and polling, which rely on conscious self‐report. Two experiments, inspired by national political campaigns, employed Internet‐presented subliminal primes to study evaluations of politicians. In Experiment 1, the subliminal word “RATS” increas…
Clinical Judgment in Science: Reply
When clinical description becomes statistical prediction
This article reconsiders the issue of clinical versus statistical prediction. The term clinical is widely used to denote 1 pole of 2 independent axes: the observer whose data are being aggregated (clinician/expert vs. lay) and the method of aggregating those data (impressionistic vs. statistical). Fifty years of research suggests that when formulas are available, statistical aggregation outperforms informal, subjective aggregation much of the tim…
Where's the Text? The Problem of Validation in Psychoanalysis
Whatever their differences, the various schools of psychoanalysis all subscribe to the case study, based on clinical vignette and anecdote, as the "text" of psychoanalysis. Because the typical case study presents not the actual analytic dialogue but a reconstruction based on the analyst's selective memory, the use of such a text renders problematic the validation of an analyst's case formulation, and has traditionally diminished the epistemologic…
Task‐Intrinsic and Social‐Extrinsic Sources of Arousal for Motives Assessed in Fantasy and Self‐Report
A review of the literature on individual differences in motive dispositions points toward the importance of distinguishing between motives as assessed in fantasy and self‐report. We proposed that these two modes of assessment have identified independent motivational systems that influence behavior in different ways. Two experiments were designed to show that the two kinds of motives are unrelated to one another and are aroused by different factor…
Childhood antecedents of conventional social accomplishment in midlife adults: A 36-year prospective study
Testability and empirical verification of psychoanalytic dynamic propositions through subliminal psychodynamic activation.
Testability and empirical verification of psychoanalytic dynamic propositions through subliminal psychodynamic activation
Testability and empirical verification of psychoanalytic dynamic propositions through subliminal psychodynamic activation
The family origins of empathic concern: A 26-year longitudinal study
This study examined whether adult empathic concern was associated with parent behavior in early childhood. Subjects were drawn from a longitudinal sample first investigated by Sears, Maccoby, and Levin (1957). At age 31, 75 subjects completed the Adjective Checklist (Gough & Heilbrun, 1965, 1983), from which an index of empathic concern was derived. Scores on this index were regressed on 11 parenting dimensions derived from maternal interviews wh…
How do self-attributed and implicit motives differ?
From the beginning of the work on the achievement motive (McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953), it has been apparent that motive dispositions as coded in imaginative thought from stories written to pictures differ from motive dispositions with the same name as measured in self-reported desires or interests. The authors of the studies on achievement motivation wanted to demonstrate that the variable they had identified in fantasy functione…
Response to Balay and Shevrin: Constructive critique or misguided attack
Response to Balay and Shevrin: Constructive critique or misguided attack
Reply to O'Dowd and to Tabin and Tabin: Historical priority and alternative interpretations
Reply to O'Dowd and to Tabin and Tabin: Historical priority and alternative interpretations
Lloyd Silverman (1930–1986): A Personal Appreciation
Lloyd Silverman made significant contributions to psychoanalytic theory and research by bringing its propositions into the lab for empirical test. Personal memories and impressions concerning his character and idiosyncrasies are offered by a junior colleague
Mommy and I are one: Implications for psychotherapy
Rats, We Should Have Used Clinton: Subliminal Priming in Political Campaigns
Political strategists decide daily how to market their candidates. Growing recognition of the importance of implicit processes (processes occurring outside of awareness) suggests limitations to focus groups and polling, which rely on conscious self‐report. Two experiments, inspired by national political campaigns, employed Internet‐presented subliminal primes to study evaluations of politicians. In Experiment 1, the subliminal word “RATS” increas…
When clinical description becomes statistical prediction
This article reconsiders the issue of clinical versus statistical prediction. The term clinical is widely used to denote 1 pole of 2 independent axes: the observer whose data are being aggregated (clinician/expert vs. lay) and the method of aggregating those data (impressionistic vs. statistical). Fifty years of research suggests that when formulas are available, statistical aggregation outperforms informal, subjective aggregation much of the tim…
The family origins of empathic concern: A 26-year longitudinal study
This study examined whether adult empathic concern was associated with parent behavior in early childhood. Subjects were drawn from a longitudinal sample first investigated by Sears, Maccoby, and Levin (1957). At age 31, 75 subjects completed the Adjective Checklist (Gough & Heilbrun, 1965, 1983), from which an index of empathic concern was derived. Scores on this index were regressed on 11 parenting dimensions derived from maternal interviews wh…
Childhood antecedents of conventional social accomplishment in midlife adults: A 36-year prospective study
Mommy and I are one: Implications for psychotherapy
Where's the Text? The Problem of Validation in Psychoanalysis
Whatever their differences, the various schools of psychoanalysis all subscribe to the case study, based on clinical vignette and anecdote, as the "text" of psychoanalysis. Because the typical case study presents not the actual analytic dialogue but a reconstruction based on the analyst's selective memory, the use of such a text renders problematic the validation of an analyst's case formulation, and has traditionally diminished the epistemologic…
Investigating Merger: Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation and Oneness Motivation Research
Two programs of empirical research have endeavored to explicate some of the unconscious processes involved in adult phenomena of merger, symbiosis, or oneness. Starting in the 1960s under the leadership of Lloyd Silverman (see, e.g., Silverman, Lachmann, and Milich 1982), subliminal psychodynamic activation (SPA) has used subliminal methods to prime and manipulate these processes. Later research into what was termed oneness motivation (OM) posite…
Clinical Judgment in Science: Reply
Mommy and I are one: Implications for psychotherapy
Lloyd Silverman (1930–1986): A Personal Appreciation
Lloyd Silverman made significant contributions to psychoanalytic theory and research by bringing its propositions into the lab for empirical test. Personal memories and impressions concerning his character and idiosyncrasies are offered by a junior colleague
Reply to O'Dowd and to Tabin and Tabin: Historical priority and alternative interpretations
Reply to O'Dowd and to Tabin and Tabin: Historical priority and alternative interpretations
How do self-attributed and implicit motives differ?
From the beginning of the work on the achievement motive (McClelland, Atkinson, Clark, & Lowell, 1953), it has been apparent that motive dispositions as coded in imaginative thought from stories written to pictures differ from motive dispositions with the same name as measured in self-reported desires or interests. The authors of the studies on achievement motivation wanted to demonstrate that the variable they had identified in fantasy functione…
Response to Balay and Shevrin: Constructive critique or misguided attack
Response to Balay and Shevrin: Constructive critique or misguided attack
Testability and empirical verification of psychoanalytic dynamic propositions through subliminal psychodynamic activation.
Testability and empirical verification of psychoanalytic dynamic propositions through subliminal psychodynamic activation
Testability and empirical verification of psychoanalytic dynamic propositions through subliminal psychodynamic activation
The family origins of empathic concern: A 26-year longitudinal study
This study examined whether adult empathic concern was associated with parent behavior in early childhood. Subjects were drawn from a longitudinal sample first investigated by Sears, Maccoby, and Levin (1957). At age 31, 75 subjects completed the Adjective Checklist (Gough & Heilbrun, 1965, 1983), from which an index of empathic concern was derived. Scores on this index were regressed on 11 parenting dimensions derived from maternal interviews wh…
Task‐Intrinsic and Social‐Extrinsic Sources of Arousal for Motives Assessed in Fantasy and Self‐Report
A review of the literature on individual differences in motive dispositions points toward the importance of distinguishing between motives as assessed in fantasy and self‐report. We proposed that these two modes of assessment have identified independent motivational systems that influence behavior in different ways. Two experiments were designed to show that the two kinds of motives are unrelated to one another and are aroused by different factor…
Childhood antecedents of conventional social accomplishment in midlife adults: A 36-year prospective study
Where's the Text? The Problem of Validation in Psychoanalysis
Whatever their differences, the various schools of psychoanalysis all subscribe to the case study, based on clinical vignette and anecdote, as the "text" of psychoanalysis. Because the typical case study presents not the actual analytic dialogue but a reconstruction based on the analyst's selective memory, the use of such a text renders problematic the validation of an analyst's case formulation, and has traditionally diminished the epistemologic…
When clinical description becomes statistical prediction
This article reconsiders the issue of clinical versus statistical prediction. The term clinical is widely used to denote 1 pole of 2 independent axes: the observer whose data are being aggregated (clinician/expert vs. lay) and the method of aggregating those data (impressionistic vs. statistical). Fifty years of research suggests that when formulas are available, statistical aggregation outperforms informal, subjective aggregation much of the tim…
Clinical Judgment in Science: Reply
Rats, We Should Have Used Clinton: Subliminal Priming in Political Campaigns
Political strategists decide daily how to market their candidates. Growing recognition of the importance of implicit processes (processes occurring outside of awareness) suggests limitations to focus groups and polling, which rely on conscious self‐report. Two experiments, inspired by national political campaigns, employed Internet‐presented subliminal primes to study evaluations of politicians. In Experiment 1, the subliminal word “RATS” increas…
Very brief exposure: The effects of unreportable stimuli on fearful behavior
Examining the relationship between current attachment status and freely recalled autobiographical memories of childhood
This study investigated the relationship between individual differences in attach-ment and the free recall of childhood memories. Specifically, it focuses on how attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, using the Experiences in Close Relationship Scale self-report, relate to the affective quality and the presence of caregivers in memories from childhood. Participants were 79 undergraduate and masters students attending a northeast university.…
What you cannot see can help you: The effect of exposure to unreportable stimuli on approach behavior
Investigating Merger: Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation and Oneness Motivation Research
Two programs of empirical research have endeavored to explicate some of the unconscious processes involved in adult phenomena of merger, symbiosis, or oneness. Starting in the 1960s under the leadership of Lloyd Silverman (see, e.g., Silverman, Lachmann, and Milich 1982), subliminal psychodynamic activation (SPA) has used subliminal methods to prime and manipulate these processes. Later research into what was termed oneness motivation (OM) posite…
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This chapter reviews psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory and practice from both the clinical and research perspectives. The first half of the chapter focuses on the clinical history of and the various approaches to psychoanalysis. We begin with efforts to differentiate between psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches. Next, we focus on theoretical developments and their practice implications for different schools of psychoanalysis. The schools…
Less is more: The effects of very brief versus clearly visible exposure
This study compared the effects of exposure to masked and unmasked phobic stimuli on phobic behavior. Participants were identified as spider-phobic with a questionnaire and a Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT) with a live tarantula (N = 101). One week later, they were administered one of three types of exposure: very brief (25 ms) or clearly visible (120 ms) images of spiders, or very brief images of flowers. They reported ratings of subjective dist…
The place of the normative unconscious in psychoanalytic theory and practice
The unconscious: History, research, neurocognitive models, and clinical implications
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Psychological Testing and Assessment (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)