William D G Balance

Biographic Data

ID4239640
NAMEWilliam D G Balance
GIVEN NAMESWilliam D G
FAMILY NAMEBalance
SIGNATUREBALANCE W D G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Windsor
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
H-INDEX1

  • Facts and myths of suicide in Canada

    Antoon A Leenaars, William D G Balance et al.ARTICLEDeath Studies1988Cited by: 1References: 1

    The purpose of this article is to describe a series of studies that investigated the level of knowledge of suicide fables and facts among Canadians. A questionnaire devised from Shneidman's traditional list of ubiquitous clinical facts and myths was used. Three studies are reported: the prevalence of myths and facts in the largest sample reported in the literature to date; the prevalence in a number of different groups such as students versus non…

  • Frustrations and joys of archival research

    Open AccessWilliam D G BalanceARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1975References: 3

  • Wilhelm Wundt 1832-1920

    Open AccessWilliam D G Balance, Rand B EvansARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1975References: 10

  • Wundt versus Münsterberg

    Wolfgang G Bringmann, William D G Balance et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1973Cited by: 2

  • Wundt versus Muensterberg

    William D G Balance, William D BalanceARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1973

  • The Computer vs the Technologist

    Open AccessWolfgang G Bringmann, William D G Balance et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1972

    It has been suggested that the present critical shortage of professional manpower in the area of psychodiagnostic testing and psychological consultation can be considerably reduced by the development and application of computerized test interpretation and report writing systems. The present study contrasted reports on a normal and an elevated profile with those written by a group of psychological technicians and by advanced graduate students in c…

  • Examination of Social Context Effects upon Affective Responses to “Hot” and “Cool” Communications Media

    Open AccessWilliam D G Balance, Daniel Coughlin et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1972

    60 male Grade 9 students were exposed to a motion picture, a television program, or a radio play alone and in small groups. Thus, there were six experimental conditions, (i.e., TV alone vs group; movies alone vs group; radio alone vs group). The contents were designed specifically for each medium and were selected to produce positive affective changes. The Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) was administered 1 wk. before and immediately after exposu…

  • Self-Validation of Programmed Feedback Statements

    Open AccessWolfgang G Bringmann, William D G Balance et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1971

    46 men and 42 women of college age received 6 statements representing each S's own highest scales on the Personality Research Form and MMPI and randomly selected items. The ranks given items showed greater endorsement of items from their own profiles

  • Acceptance of Trait-Descriptive vs “Medical Model” Oriented Feedback Statements

    Open AccessWilliam D G Balance, Sonny S Sandberg et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1971

    The current controversy surrounding the medical or illness model of disordered behavior has very largely neglected the area of psychological assessment and feedback. It was the aim of the present study to examine the acceptability of feedback statements derived from inventories based on pathology-oriented vs trait-descriptive personality constructs. 88 male and female students completed the MMPI and the PRF (Personality Research Form) in group se…

  • Goethe as behavior therapist

    Open AccessWolfgang G Bringmann, Alan Krichev et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1970References: 10

  • Experimental Investigation of Mc Luhan's Ideas concerning Effects of “Hot” and “Cool” Communications Media

    Open AccessWolfgang G Bringmann, William D G Balance et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1969

    The present study was carried out to investigate recent theories of Marshall McLuhan concerning the differential effects of “hot” (movie) and “cool” (television) communications media. Four groups of college students ( N = 51) viewed the same highway accident film, “Signal 30,” under four different media conditions (color movie and black and white television with and without sound track). Dependent variable measurements were made by administering …