Jack Price
Biographic Data
| ID | 6337883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Price |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2235-9180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconstructing brains
Shadows in the dark
The Human Male Socialization Strategy Set
The adaptive function of mood change
It is useful to imagine an ‘agonistic strategy set’, containing the two alternative and mutually incompatible strategies of escalation and de‐escalation. The strategy set is accessed by loss, threat or some other form of ‘ranking stress’. It is further suggested that ranking stress is dealt with relatively independently at three levels of the brain/mind, so that an agonistic strategy set is deployed at each of the three levels. Normally, all thre…
The paradoxical power of the depressed patient
The social ranking (or social competition) theory of depression suggests that the capacity for episodes of depressed mood evolved as a mechanism for inhibiting challenge. Depressed mood induces the sufferer to accommodate to low social rank, or to losing in social competition, or to adopting the one‐down position in a complementary relationship (Price, 1991; Price, Sloman, Gardner, Gilbert & Rohde, 1994; Sloman, Price, Gilbert & Gardner, 1994). T…
Psychiatric out‐patients' reactions to summary letters of their consultations
The research reported here was an initial attempt to assess the feasibility and utility of providing new referrals to a psychiatric out‐patient clinic with written summaries of their consultations. After routine consultations patients were randomly assigned to the experimental group (those sent a summary letter, N = 23) or control group (letter to GP only, N = 29). Subsequent assessment interviews revealed that the summary letters were very well …
Change or homeostasis? A systems theory approach to depression
Looking at the onset of depressive states in linear terms, there is often a problem of distinguishing cause and effect: did the adverse life‐events cause the depression, or did the depression cause the adverse life‐events? If we abandon linear thinking and look at depression in systemic terms, the problem of cause and effect disappears, but it is replaced by another problem: is the patient/environment system characterized by homeostasis or change…
Hostility scores in australian women with special reference to the battered wife
The Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire (HDHQ) of Caine, Foulds and Hope (1967) was administered to 177 Australian women for comparison with Australian women who seek to escape a battering husband. The present sample scored as more hostile than the English standardization sample, but less hostile than the battered wives of the comparison sample on PH (paranoid hostility), G (guilt), and H (total hostility). Several significant corr…
General Medical Practitioners
Birth order and birth rate bias
Birth order and family size have been studied in a representative sample (10,000) of the adult population of Great Britain. This was done to test theoretical predictions about the ways in which the birth-order distribution in a population sample will be biased by secular changes in family size. The principal predictions were that, in a sample born during a period when family size was decreasing, the distribution of birth ranks in the larger famil…
A twin study of graphology
The object of the study was to make an objective assessment of the validity of ascertaining personality from handwriting. The subjects chosen for the research were twenty-four pairs of identical and twenty-four pairs of non-identical twins. Personality scores were obtained from each subject, and each pair of twins was rated by their parent(s) on a questionnaire comparing their personality and development. These ratings were compared with ratings …
Social and genetic influences on life and death
Personality differences within families
313 pairs of brothers and 296 pairs of sisters were compared by one or both parents in a postal questionnaire. For 495 pairs independent questionnaires were completed by father and mother, and agreement between parents was good. There was a marked tendency for the first-born child to be rated as less fond of cuddling; he was also easier to train, worked harder at school, set himself higher standards, and was more serious, methodical, law-abiding,…
The adaptive function of mood change
It is useful to imagine an ‘agonistic strategy set’, containing the two alternative and mutually incompatible strategies of escalation and de‐escalation. The strategy set is accessed by loss, threat or some other form of ‘ranking stress’. It is further suggested that ranking stress is dealt with relatively independently at three levels of the brain/mind, so that an agonistic strategy set is deployed at each of the three levels. Normally, all thre…
The paradoxical power of the depressed patient
The social ranking (or social competition) theory of depression suggests that the capacity for episodes of depressed mood evolved as a mechanism for inhibiting challenge. Depressed mood induces the sufferer to accommodate to low social rank, or to losing in social competition, or to adopting the one‐down position in a complementary relationship (Price, 1991; Price, Sloman, Gardner, Gilbert & Rohde, 1994; Sloman, Price, Gilbert & Gardner, 1994). T…
Change or homeostasis? A systems theory approach to depression
Looking at the onset of depressive states in linear terms, there is often a problem of distinguishing cause and effect: did the adverse life‐events cause the depression, or did the depression cause the adverse life‐events? If we abandon linear thinking and look at depression in systemic terms, the problem of cause and effect disappears, but it is replaced by another problem: is the patient/environment system characterized by homeostasis or change…
Personality differences within families
313 pairs of brothers and 296 pairs of sisters were compared by one or both parents in a postal questionnaire. For 495 pairs independent questionnaires were completed by father and mother, and agreement between parents was good. There was a marked tendency for the first-born child to be rated as less fond of cuddling; he was also easier to train, worked harder at school, set himself higher standards, and was more serious, methodical, law-abiding,…
Social and genetic influences on life and death
A twin study of graphology
The object of the study was to make an objective assessment of the validity of ascertaining personality from handwriting. The subjects chosen for the research were twenty-four pairs of identical and twenty-four pairs of non-identical twins. Personality scores were obtained from each subject, and each pair of twins was rated by their parent(s) on a questionnaire comparing their personality and development. These ratings were compared with ratings …
Birth order and birth rate bias
Birth order and family size have been studied in a representative sample (10,000) of the adult population of Great Britain. This was done to test theoretical predictions about the ways in which the birth-order distribution in a population sample will be biased by secular changes in family size. The principal predictions were that, in a sample born during a period when family size was decreasing, the distribution of birth ranks in the larger famil…
General Medical Practitioners
Hostility scores in australian women with special reference to the battered wife
The Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire (HDHQ) of Caine, Foulds and Hope (1967) was administered to 177 Australian women for comparison with Australian women who seek to escape a battering husband. The present sample scored as more hostile than the English standardization sample, but less hostile than the battered wives of the comparison sample on PH (paranoid hostility), G (guilt), and H (total hostility). Several significant corr…
Psychiatric out‐patients' reactions to summary letters of their consultations
The research reported here was an initial attempt to assess the feasibility and utility of providing new referrals to a psychiatric out‐patient clinic with written summaries of their consultations. After routine consultations patients were randomly assigned to the experimental group (those sent a summary letter, N = 23) or control group (letter to GP only, N = 29). Subsequent assessment interviews revealed that the summary letters were very well …
Change or homeostasis? A systems theory approach to depression
Looking at the onset of depressive states in linear terms, there is often a problem of distinguishing cause and effect: did the adverse life‐events cause the depression, or did the depression cause the adverse life‐events? If we abandon linear thinking and look at depression in systemic terms, the problem of cause and effect disappears, but it is replaced by another problem: is the patient/environment system characterized by homeostasis or change…
The paradoxical power of the depressed patient
The social ranking (or social competition) theory of depression suggests that the capacity for episodes of depressed mood evolved as a mechanism for inhibiting challenge. Depressed mood induces the sufferer to accommodate to low social rank, or to losing in social competition, or to adopting the one‐down position in a complementary relationship (Price, 1991; Price, Sloman, Gardner, Gilbert & Rohde, 1994; Sloman, Price, Gilbert & Gardner, 1994). T…
The Human Male Socialization Strategy Set
The adaptive function of mood change
It is useful to imagine an ‘agonistic strategy set’, containing the two alternative and mutually incompatible strategies of escalation and de‐escalation. The strategy set is accessed by loss, threat or some other form of ‘ranking stress’. It is further suggested that ranking stress is dealt with relatively independently at three levels of the brain/mind, so that an agonistic strategy set is deployed at each of the three levels. Normally, all thre…
Shadows in the dark
Reconstructing brains
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