S Rachman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5240444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Rachman |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rachman |
| SIGNATURE | RACHMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2749-0002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Medical Imagination
Reviewed by: The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States by Sari Altschuler Stephen Rachman Sari Altschuler. The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 312 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978–0–8122–4986–6). Only a few decades ago it would have been a truism to observe that medical practitioners of the eighteenth and ninete…
“White Sleep”
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(Re)connecting People and the Land
Research Article| March 01 2017 (Re)connecting People and the Land: Ecomemory in Environmental Writings by Ethnic Minority Women Writers in China Dong Isbister; Dong Isbister University of Wisconsin-Platteville [email protected] Dong Isbister is an assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her research and teaching interests include collective memory and immigration, transnational feminism, envi…
Memento Morbi
I. A Face Withheld From the shadows of an undefined space, a room featureless in its darkness, a shrouded, semirecumbent figure reluctantly presents itself to the viewer (figure 1). The nineteenth-century Cantonese artist known to westerners as Lam Qua (Guan Qiaochang), who painted this portrait in the late 1830s, chose a restricted palette. It is a study in black, brown, and dull, mellow flesh tones. A dim source provides the bare minimum of lig…
"Melville's Pierre Nervous Exhaustion; or "The Vacant Whirlingness of the Bewilderingness
This essay examines nervous exhaustion in Herman Melville's most problematic novel, Pierre, or the Ambiguities (1852). Nervous exhaustion, as it is figured by Melville, is an issue in which disease and literary understanding converge. Pierre can inform our understanding of nineteenth-century nervous disease (or more broadly still, diseases of culture) and its connection to literature and how it was that Melville came to articulate this nervous vi…
It Isn't Easy Being Green
Research Article| April 01 1996 It Isn’t Easy Being Green Stephen Rachman Stephen Rachman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (2): 437–451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Rachman; It Isn’t Easy Being Green. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1996; 95 (2): 437–451. doi: https:/…
Fearlessness and courage
In two earlier studies it was found that decorated military bomb‐disposal operators showed lower cardiac responses under stress than comparable but non‐decorated operators. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether that distinctive reaction to stress could be demonstrated in other military subjects. The stress reactions of decorated and non‐decorated paratrooper veterans were therefore investigated. Utilizing the method that was e…
Fearlessness and courage
An attempt was made to replicate the finding that decorated bomb‐disposal operators show lower cardiac activity under stress than do comparable but non‐decorated operators. The performance under stress of three groups of soldiers (decorated operators, non‐decorated operators, less experienced soldiers) was assessed by behavioural, psychophysiological, and subjective measures. The original result, showing lower cardiac activity under stress among …
An experimental analysis of fearlessness and courage
In an attempt to assess the performance under stress of people who had received awards for gallantry, the subjective, behavioural and psychophysiological reactions of a group of seven decorated bomb‐disposal operators were measured during a conflict test. Compared to a group of seven equally experienced and successful, but non‐decorated, bomb‐disposal operators, the decorated subjects maintained a lower cardiac rate when making difficult discrimi…
Experimental investigations of the relations between mood and intrusive unwanted cognitions
Two experiments were carried out in order to test the hypothesis that unwanted intrusive thoughts are difficult to remove during dysphoria. In the first experiment, 32 people who experienced unwanted thoughts were induced to feel happy or sad, and then asked to remove selected intrusive or neutral thoughts. The hypothesis was supported, but as the mood‐induction procedure was felt to be unsatisfactory, a second study was undertaken. The substitut…
Abnormal and normal obsessions
The conditioning theory of fearacquisition
Systematic desensitization
The Stability of the Wisc in a Psychiatric Group
S ummary . The re‐test stability of the Wechsler Individual Scale for Children was assessed on a small group of psychiatric patients. The reliability coefficients obtained after a six‐month interval were satisfactorily high but significant practice effect increases were detected on the Performance and Full‐Scale scores. Some of the WISC subtests yielded very poor reliability coefficients. No evidence of an association between intelligence test sc…
Emotionally Disturbed Children
Reply to a "critique and reformulation" of behavior therapy
Reminiscence, Inhibition and Consolidation
The inability of the two‐factor theory of inhibition to account for some of the experimental findings on psycho‐motor learning has led Eysenck to formulate a new theory which introduces the concept of consolidation. The present experiment describes an attempt to separate the inhibitory factors and the consolidation process. Fifty‐five subjects were randomly assigned to one of four groups and made to practise on the pursuit rotor for five minutes …
The Effect of Practice on Performance in a Reading Attainment Test
Although it is highly desirable that educational progress should be assessed by means of standardised attainment tests, this procedure often encounters difficulties. The artificial inflation of re-test results by practice effects is a particularly awkward problem. The present study was designed to measure the extent of this effect on parallel forms of a recently developed attainment test, namely the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability. It was found…
Disinhibition and the Reminiscence Effect in a Motor Learning Task
This study was designed to investigate the operation of disinhibition in humans. Two groups of subjects were made to perform a motor learning task (pursuit rotor). The subjects in the experimental group were presented with a brief disinhibiting, alien stimulus during their 5 min. practice period. It was predicted that the introduction of this alien stimulus would produce an augmentation of performance level and a reduction in the reminiscence eff…
Galvanic Skin Response in Identical Twins
Reliability of Galvanic Skin Response Measures
Galvanic Skin Response in Identical Twins
Reliability of Galvanic Skin Response Measures
Experimental investigations of the relations between mood and intrusive unwanted cognitions
Two experiments were carried out in order to test the hypothesis that unwanted intrusive thoughts are difficult to remove during dysphoria. In the first experiment, 32 people who experienced unwanted thoughts were induced to feel happy or sad, and then asked to remove selected intrusive or neutral thoughts. The hypothesis was supported, but as the mood‐induction procedure was felt to be unsatisfactory, a second study was undertaken. The substitut…
The Effect of Practice on Performance in a Reading Attainment Test
Although it is highly desirable that educational progress should be assessed by means of standardised attainment tests, this procedure often encounters difficulties. The artificial inflation of re-test results by practice effects is a particularly awkward problem. The present study was designed to measure the extent of this effect on parallel forms of a recently developed attainment test, namely the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability. It was found…
Fearlessness and courage
In two earlier studies it was found that decorated military bomb‐disposal operators showed lower cardiac responses under stress than comparable but non‐decorated operators. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether that distinctive reaction to stress could be demonstrated in other military subjects. The stress reactions of decorated and non‐decorated paratrooper veterans were therefore investigated. Utilizing the method that was e…
Fearlessness and courage
An attempt was made to replicate the finding that decorated bomb‐disposal operators show lower cardiac activity under stress than do comparable but non‐decorated operators. The performance under stress of three groups of soldiers (decorated operators, non‐decorated operators, less experienced soldiers) was assessed by behavioural, psychophysiological, and subjective measures. The original result, showing lower cardiac activity under stress among …
An experimental analysis of fearlessness and courage
In an attempt to assess the performance under stress of people who had received awards for gallantry, the subjective, behavioural and psychophysiological reactions of a group of seven decorated bomb‐disposal operators were measured during a conflict test. Compared to a group of seven equally experienced and successful, but non‐decorated, bomb‐disposal operators, the decorated subjects maintained a lower cardiac rate when making difficult discrimi…
Galvanic Skin Response in Identical Twins
Reliability of Galvanic Skin Response Measures
Galvanic Skin Response in Identical Twins
Reliability of Galvanic Skin Response Measures
Disinhibition and the Reminiscence Effect in a Motor Learning Task
This study was designed to investigate the operation of disinhibition in humans. Two groups of subjects were made to perform a motor learning task (pursuit rotor). The subjects in the experimental group were presented with a brief disinhibiting, alien stimulus during their 5 min. practice period. It was predicted that the introduction of this alien stimulus would produce an augmentation of performance level and a reduction in the reminiscence eff…
Reminiscence, Inhibition and Consolidation
The inability of the two‐factor theory of inhibition to account for some of the experimental findings on psycho‐motor learning has led Eysenck to formulate a new theory which introduces the concept of consolidation. The present experiment describes an attempt to separate the inhibitory factors and the consolidation process. Fifty‐five subjects were randomly assigned to one of four groups and made to practise on the pursuit rotor for five minutes …
The Effect of Practice on Performance in a Reading Attainment Test
Although it is highly desirable that educational progress should be assessed by means of standardised attainment tests, this procedure often encounters difficulties. The artificial inflation of re-test results by practice effects is a particularly awkward problem. The present study was designed to measure the extent of this effect on parallel forms of a recently developed attainment test, namely the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability. It was found…
Reply to a "critique and reformulation" of behavior therapy
Systematic desensitization
The Stability of the Wisc in a Psychiatric Group
S ummary . The re‐test stability of the Wechsler Individual Scale for Children was assessed on a small group of psychiatric patients. The reliability coefficients obtained after a six‐month interval were satisfactorily high but significant practice effect increases were detected on the Performance and Full‐Scale scores. Some of the WISC subtests yielded very poor reliability coefficients. No evidence of an association between intelligence test sc…
Emotionally Disturbed Children
The conditioning theory of fearacquisition
Abnormal and normal obsessions
Experimental investigations of the relations between mood and intrusive unwanted cognitions
Two experiments were carried out in order to test the hypothesis that unwanted intrusive thoughts are difficult to remove during dysphoria. In the first experiment, 32 people who experienced unwanted thoughts were induced to feel happy or sad, and then asked to remove selected intrusive or neutral thoughts. The hypothesis was supported, but as the mood‐induction procedure was felt to be unsatisfactory, a second study was undertaken. The substitut…
An experimental analysis of fearlessness and courage
In an attempt to assess the performance under stress of people who had received awards for gallantry, the subjective, behavioural and psychophysiological reactions of a group of seven decorated bomb‐disposal operators were measured during a conflict test. Compared to a group of seven equally experienced and successful, but non‐decorated, bomb‐disposal operators, the decorated subjects maintained a lower cardiac rate when making difficult discrimi…
Fearlessness and courage
An attempt was made to replicate the finding that decorated bomb‐disposal operators show lower cardiac activity under stress than do comparable but non‐decorated operators. The performance under stress of three groups of soldiers (decorated operators, non‐decorated operators, less experienced soldiers) was assessed by behavioural, psychophysiological, and subjective measures. The original result, showing lower cardiac activity under stress among …
Fearlessness and courage
In two earlier studies it was found that decorated military bomb‐disposal operators showed lower cardiac responses under stress than comparable but non‐decorated operators. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether that distinctive reaction to stress could be demonstrated in other military subjects. The stress reactions of decorated and non‐decorated paratrooper veterans were therefore investigated. Utilizing the method that was e…
It Isn't Easy Being Green
Research Article| April 01 1996 It Isn’t Easy Being Green Stephen Rachman Stephen Rachman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (2): 437–451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Rachman; It Isn’t Easy Being Green. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1996; 95 (2): 437–451. doi: https:/…
"Melville's Pierre Nervous Exhaustion; or "The Vacant Whirlingness of the Bewilderingness
This essay examines nervous exhaustion in Herman Melville's most problematic novel, Pierre, or the Ambiguities (1852). Nervous exhaustion, as it is figured by Melville, is an issue in which disease and literary understanding converge. Pierre can inform our understanding of nineteenth-century nervous disease (or more broadly still, diseases of culture) and its connection to literature and how it was that Melville came to articulate this nervous vi…
Memento Morbi
I. A Face Withheld From the shadows of an undefined space, a room featureless in its darkness, a shrouded, semirecumbent figure reluctantly presents itself to the viewer (figure 1). The nineteenth-century Cantonese artist known to westerners as Lam Qua (Guan Qiaochang), who painted this portrait in the late 1830s, chose a restricted palette. It is a study in black, brown, and dull, mellow flesh tones. A dim source provides the bare minimum of lig…
“White Sleep”
, . , , , . , , , . , , , . , , , .
(Re)connecting People and the Land
Research Article| March 01 2017 (Re)connecting People and the Land: Ecomemory in Environmental Writings by Ethnic Minority Women Writers in China Dong Isbister; Dong Isbister University of Wisconsin-Platteville [email protected] Dong Isbister is an assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies at University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her research and teaching interests include collective memory and immigration, transnational feminism, envi…
The Medical Imagination
Reviewed by: The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States by Sari Altschuler Stephen Rachman Sari Altschuler. The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 312 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978–0–8122–4986–6). Only a few decades ago it would have been a truism to observe that medical practitioners of the eighteenth and ninete…
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