Charles G Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5971044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles G Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles G |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Veterans Administration Hospital, St. Cloud, Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8391-6585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Identification of Suicidal Episodes with the MMPI
Previous research has not identified MMPI scales, patterns or item sets capable of separating eventual suicide committers from non-committers. Looking for MMPI scales associated with a short-term suicide state, we compared the scores of people who had committed suicide soon after taking the inventory with those of people who killed themselves more than three months later. The Suicide Episode group showed a significantly higher mean score than the…
Incidence of Wife-Battering in Male Psychiatric Hospital Patients
The authors surveyed 137 male admissions to the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Veterans Administration Medical Center to estimate the incidence of physical abuse toward wives/partners. Among those 101 who had lived with a woman, physical abuse was reported in 54 cases. However, the violence was judged “serious” by half or more of a panel of judges in only 23 of those cases. Moreover, serious violence within the previous year was reported by only 6 of thes…
Canonical correlation in the analysis of a contingency table
Canonical correlation in the analysis of a contingency table
Anhedonia and Death
The Anhedonia Scale scores of 39 persons who later committed suicide, people who later died of natural causes, and survivors were compared. The results were equivocal, but suggested that suicides are characterized by low anhedonia and individuals who die premature natural deaths show high anhedonia levels
Role of Selective Attention to Emotional and Neutral Stimuli in Schizophrenic Affective Deficit
A test of the hypothesis that psychopathological emotional deficit involves selective attention to unemotional stimuli was made. The attention of schizophrenics ( n = 100) with high and low scores on measures of anhedonia and sensation-seeking to pleasant, unpleasant and neutral stimuli was contrasted. No differences in the mean attention scores of the groups appeared. The results do not support the hypothesis. Emotional deficit in schizophrenia …
Effects of Content Verbalness and Intangibility on Schizophrenics' Deficits in Abstract Thinking
Earlier research has suggested that schizophrenics' deficits on conceptual tasks could reflect special difficulties with verbal or intangible stimuli rather than inability to abstract correctly per se. The performance of process and reactive schizophrenics on similarities tests varying in verbalness and intangibility of stimuli was compared to that of nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients. No special deficits associated with verbal stimulus prese…
Roles of Interpersonal Contact and Verbal Content in Abstract Thinking Deficits of Schizophrenics
Previous research has suggested that the well-publicized loss of abstract ability by schizophrenics may reflect their difficulties with interpersonal communication rather than abstraction deficits per se. To test this hypothesis, the performance of process schizophrenics, reactive schizophrenics, and normals were compared on four Proverbs tests which varied in the amount of interpersonal communication they entailed. Also, to test the hypothesis t…
Behavioral Correlates of the Mmpi Paranoia Scale
This study investigated the behavioral correlates of the Paranoia scale of the MMPI. Behavior ratings were made on 112 psychiatric patients using the Hostile Belligerence and Paranoid Projection scales from the Psychotic Inpatient Profile. Product-moment correlations obtained were not statistically significant. Analyses testing an hypothesized curvilinear relationship between Paranoia scale scores and paranoid symptomatology also were not statist…
Relationships of Anhedonia to Physiological Reactivity and Threshold
Anhedonia—the inability to experience pleasure—is a cardinal symptom of schizophrenia, but its role is poorly understood because it has been subjected to very little systematic research. In the present study, the relationships of anhedonia to a variety of physiological reactivity and threshold measures were studied in a group of 76 psychiatric hospital patients. The results were negative. The results suggest that clinical anhedonia is not a funct…
Separation of Brain-Damaged from Schizophrenic Patients by Reitan-Halstead Pattern Analysis
An attempt was made to cross-validate diagnostic patterns DeWolfe, et al. have suggested may be useful in the separation of brain-damaged from schizophrenic Ss by use of the Halstead tests. The attempt failed. The ramifications of the inconsistent and generally negative results of this project and the DeWolfe, et al. study are discussed
Toward an Operational Definition of Anhedonia
Systematic study of Rado's idea that anhedonia plays a central role in the development of schizophrenia has lagged for want of a suitable operational definition. Therefore, seven measures appearing to reflect anhedonia were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. The resulting varimax factors were named: Apathy vs Cheerfulness, defined by Psychotic Inpatient Profile and Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation items, Gurel's Goalless Apath…
Wais Error Types in Schizophrenics and Organics
The differences in the frequencies with which four WAIS error types appeared in the protocols of hospitalized schizophrenic and brain-damaged patients were analyzed at two length-of-hospitalization levels. At the low-hospitalization level, Inadequate Attempts were more frequent among organics while No Attempts were more common to schizophrenics. However, there were no differences at the high-hospitalization level. The hospitalization length-diagn…
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Wais Error Types in Schizophrenics and Organics
The differences in the frequencies with which four WAIS error types appeared in the protocols of hospitalized schizophrenic and brain-damaged patients were analyzed at two length-of-hospitalization levels. At the low-hospitalization level, Inadequate Attempts were more frequent among organics while No Attempts were more common to schizophrenics. However, there were no differences at the high-hospitalization level. The hospitalization length-diagn…
Toward an Operational Definition of Anhedonia
Systematic study of Rado's idea that anhedonia plays a central role in the development of schizophrenia has lagged for want of a suitable operational definition. Therefore, seven measures appearing to reflect anhedonia were intercorrelated and factor analyzed. The resulting varimax factors were named: Apathy vs Cheerfulness, defined by Psychotic Inpatient Profile and Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation items, Gurel's Goalless Apath…
Separation of Brain-Damaged from Schizophrenic Patients by Reitan-Halstead Pattern Analysis
An attempt was made to cross-validate diagnostic patterns DeWolfe, et al. have suggested may be useful in the separation of brain-damaged from schizophrenic Ss by use of the Halstead tests. The attempt failed. The ramifications of the inconsistent and generally negative results of this project and the DeWolfe, et al. study are discussed
Behavioral Correlates of the Mmpi Paranoia Scale
This study investigated the behavioral correlates of the Paranoia scale of the MMPI. Behavior ratings were made on 112 psychiatric patients using the Hostile Belligerence and Paranoid Projection scales from the Psychotic Inpatient Profile. Product-moment correlations obtained were not statistically significant. Analyses testing an hypothesized curvilinear relationship between Paranoia scale scores and paranoid symptomatology also were not statist…
Relationships of Anhedonia to Physiological Reactivity and Threshold
Anhedonia—the inability to experience pleasure—is a cardinal symptom of schizophrenia, but its role is poorly understood because it has been subjected to very little systematic research. In the present study, the relationships of anhedonia to a variety of physiological reactivity and threshold measures were studied in a group of 76 psychiatric hospital patients. The results were negative. The results suggest that clinical anhedonia is not a funct…
Roles of Interpersonal Contact and Verbal Content in Abstract Thinking Deficits of Schizophrenics
Previous research has suggested that the well-publicized loss of abstract ability by schizophrenics may reflect their difficulties with interpersonal communication rather than abstraction deficits per se. To test this hypothesis, the performance of process schizophrenics, reactive schizophrenics, and normals were compared on four Proverbs tests which varied in the amount of interpersonal communication they entailed. Also, to test the hypothesis t…
Effects of Content Verbalness and Intangibility on Schizophrenics' Deficits in Abstract Thinking
Earlier research has suggested that schizophrenics' deficits on conceptual tasks could reflect special difficulties with verbal or intangible stimuli rather than inability to abstract correctly per se. The performance of process and reactive schizophrenics on similarities tests varying in verbalness and intangibility of stimuli was compared to that of nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients. No special deficits associated with verbal stimulus prese…
Role of Selective Attention to Emotional and Neutral Stimuli in Schizophrenic Affective Deficit
A test of the hypothesis that psychopathological emotional deficit involves selective attention to unemotional stimuli was made. The attention of schizophrenics ( n = 100) with high and low scores on measures of anhedonia and sensation-seeking to pleasant, unpleasant and neutral stimuli was contrasted. No differences in the mean attention scores of the groups appeared. The results do not support the hypothesis. Emotional deficit in schizophrenia …
Anhedonia and Death
The Anhedonia Scale scores of 39 persons who later committed suicide, people who later died of natural causes, and survivors were compared. The results were equivocal, but suggested that suicides are characterized by low anhedonia and individuals who die premature natural deaths show high anhedonia levels
Canonical correlation in the analysis of a contingency table
Canonical correlation in the analysis of a contingency table
Incidence of Wife-Battering in Male Psychiatric Hospital Patients
The authors surveyed 137 male admissions to the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Veterans Administration Medical Center to estimate the incidence of physical abuse toward wives/partners. Among those 101 who had lived with a woman, physical abuse was reported in 54 cases. However, the violence was judged “serious” by half or more of a panel of judges in only 23 of those cases. Moreover, serious violence within the previous year was reported by only 6 of thes…
Identification of Suicidal Episodes with the MMPI
Previous research has not identified MMPI scales, patterns or item sets capable of separating eventual suicide committers from non-committers. Looking for MMPI scales associated with a short-term suicide state, we compared the scores of people who had committed suicide soon after taking the inventory with those of people who killed themselves more than three months later. The Suicide Episode group showed a significantly higher mean score than the…
Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Anhedonia (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)