Hans Eysenck: Consensus And Controversy: Consensus & Controversy (Falmer International Master-Minds Challenged Series, Vol 2)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Dedication......Page 11
Part I: Introduction......Page 12
CONTINUING THE DEBATE: THE STRATEGY OF THE BOOK......Page 13
REFERENCES......Page 14
Part II: Introduction Chapter......Page 15
2. Introductory Chapter......Page 16
Part III: Behavioural Genetics......Page 26
3. Eysenck’s Contributions to Behaviour Genetics......Page 27
PREVIOUS WORK ON THE CAUSES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY AND ATTITUDES......Page 28
THE TWIN SAMPLE......Page 29
1 Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory: Anxiety and Depression Scales (DSSI/sAD)......Page 30
METHODS FOR TESTING HYPOTHESES......Page 31
Scaling......Page 33
Distribution of Scores and Sex Differences......Page 36
Repeatability......Page 37
Correction for Sex Differences and Regression on Age......Page 39
Anxiety......Page 41
Extraversion......Page 43
Psychoticism......Page 46
Lie......Page 47
Conservatism......Page 50
Correlations between Personality and Attitude Scores......Page 51
Causes of Covariation between Anxiety, Depression and Neuroticism......Page 52
DISCUSSION......Page 55
REFERENCES......Page 58
4. H.J.Eysenck and Behaviour Genetics: A Critical View......Page 62
AN EARLY EXAMPLE: NEUROTICISM......Page 63
A MODERN INSTANCE: EXTRA VERSION, NEUROTICISM, PSYCHOTICISM......Page 65
INTELLIGENCE......Page 68
REFERENCES......Page 69
EAVES REPLIES TO LOEHLIN......Page 71
LOEHLIN REPLIES TO MARTIN AND JARDINE......Page 72
Part IV: Personality......Page 75
5. Major Contributions to the Psychology of Personality......Page 76
Specifying Facets of the Global Domains......Page 79
Adding New Domains......Page 82
REFERENCES......Page 83
6. Eysenck’s Contribution to the Psychology of Personality......Page 86
NOTE......Page 96
REFERENCES......Page 97
COSTA AND McCRAE REPLY TO CLARIDGE......Page 99
CLARIDGE REPLIES TO COSTA AND McCRAE......Page 100
Part V: Intelligence......Page 101
Background......Page 102
Philosophy of Science......Page 104
Overview of Eysenck’s Contributions......Page 105
1 The Limitations of Factor Analysis......Page 106
2 The Fractionation of g......Page 107
3 Reaction Time and Intelligence......Page 108
The Physiological Basis of Intelligence......Page 109
REFERENCES......Page 113
8. Eysenck on Intelligence: A Critical Perspective......Page 116
Ethological......Page 117
Psychometric......Page 118
Piagetian......Page 122
Information Processing......Page 123
Physiological......Page 125
Genetic versus Environmental Effects on Intelligence......Page 126
The Competence-Performance Distinction......Page 130
Galtonian Measures of Intelligence......Page 133
The Hendrickson Model and Average Evoked Potential......Page 134
Inspection Time......Page 136
Reaction Time......Page 137
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 139
REFERENCES......Page 140
JENSEN REPLIES TO CARLSON AND WIDAMAN......Page 147
CARLSON AND WIDAMAN REPLY TO JENSEN......Page 149
REFERENCES......Page 150
Part VI: Social Attitudes......Page 151
EYSENCK’S THEORY OF POLITICAL ATTITUDES......Page 152
OBJECTIONS—ANCIENT AND MODERN......Page 157
THE ACCEPTABLE FACE OF PSYCHOTICISM......Page 158
THE DYNAMICS OF ‘LEGITIMIST’ AND ‘UTOPIAN’ POLITICS......Page 163
REFERENCES......Page 167
10. Eysenck on Social Attitudes: An Historical Critique......Page 169
REFERENCES......Page 186
BRAND REPLIES TO RAY......Page 188
RAY REPLIES TO BRAND......Page 189
REFERENCES......Page 191
Part VII: Psychotherapy and Freudian Psychology......Page 192
STANDARD PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY......Page 193
PSYCHOANALYTICALLY ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPY......Page 197
The Clinical Evidence......Page 200
Warrant......Page 202
Freudian Hypotheses......Page 203
The Kline (1972, 1981) Reviews......Page 205
2 The Oedipal and castration factors in male personality development......Page 208
3 The relative importance of concern about loss of love in the woman’s as compared to the man’s personality economy......Page 209
5 The influence of anxiety about homosexual impulses upon paranoid delusion formation......Page 210
CONCLUSION......Page 213
REFERENCES......Page 214
EFFECTIVENESS OF THERAPY AND THEORY......Page 219
THE VALUE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY......Page 220
SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY......Page 221
Replies to the Objections......Page 222
PERCEPT GENETICS AND DEFENCE MECHANISMS......Page 223
The DMT......Page 224
The Validity of the DMT and Percept-Genetic Claims......Page 225
THE WORK OF SILVERMAN: THE ACTIVATION OF UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICT......Page 227
Examples of Stimuli......Page 228
Some Findings......Page 229
CROSS-CULTURAL METHODS......Page 230
Cross-Cultural Testing......Page 231
Hologeistic Methods......Page 232
CONCLUSIONS......Page 236
REFERENCES......Page 237
ERWIN REPLIES TO KLINE......Page 241
REFERENCES......Page 243
KLINE REPLIES TO ERWIN......Page 244
REFERENCES......Page 246
Part VIII: Behaviour Therapy......Page 247
13. Contemporary Behaviour Therapy and the Unique Contribution of H.J.Eysenck: Anachronistic or Visionary?......Page 248
EXAMINING EYSENCK’S INFLUENCE: SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS......Page 249
EYSENCK’S INFLUENCE ON BEHAVIOUR THERAPY AS SCIENCE......Page 251
THEORY IN BEHAVIOUR THERAPY: WHAT DOES EYSENCK HAVE TO OFFER?......Page 252
TRAITS: EYSENCK’S ADVOCACY AND BEHAVIOUR THERAPISTS’ RESISTANCE......Page 253
EYSENCK’S APPLICATION OF THEORY AND TRAITS......Page 255
EYSENCK’S CONTRIBUTIONS: AN OVERVIEW OF SELECTED TOPICS......Page 256
EYSENCK’S ANALYSIS OF THERAPEUTIC EFFECTIVENESS......Page 257
REFERENCES......Page 258
14. On Sterile Paradigms and the Realities of Clinical Practice: Critical Comments on Eysenck’s Contribution to Behaviour Therapy......Page 262
Notes......Page 270
REFERENCES......Page 271
BARBRACK AND FRANKS REPLY TO LAZARUS......Page 274
LAZARUS REPLIES TO BARBRACK AND FRANKS......Page 276
REFERENCES......Page 277
Part IX: Sexual and Marital Behaviour......Page 279
EYSENCK’S HYPOTHESES......Page 280
EYSENCK’S SEX QUESTIONNAIRE......Page 282
PERSONALITY, SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR......Page 283
MALE-FEMALE DIFFERENCES......Page 284
ADULT SAMPLES......Page 286
SEXUAL ATTITUDES OF MALE PRISONERS......Page 287
PERSONALITY AND MARITAL CHOICE......Page 288
MARITAL SATISFACTION......Page 289
HORMONES AND PERSONALITY......Page 292
PERSONALITY AND SEXUAL CONDITIONING......Page 294
DEVIANT SEXUALITY......Page 295
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION......Page 297
CONCLUSION......Page 298
REFERENCES......Page 299
Fifty Years of .25 Correlations......Page 302
Eysenck on Personality and Marital Satisfaction......Page 303
Spouse Similarity: The Chicken or the Egg?......Page 304
Similarity and Marital Satisfaction......Page 305
DARING TO DO IT CORRECTLY......Page 306
PERSONALITY AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR/ATTITUDES......Page 308
Eysenck’s and Related Questionnaire Studies......Page 309
Conclusions: Personality and Sex......Page 310
CONCLUSIONS: PERSONALITY, MARRIAGE AND SEX......Page 311
REFERENCES......Page 312
WILSON REPLIES TO GILBERT......Page 315
2 Implications of correlations......Page 317
4 Simplification versus oversimplification: cutting nature at her joints......Page 318
REFERENCES......Page 319
Part X: Smoking and Health......Page 320
17. Smoking, Personality and Health......Page 321
SMOKING AND HEALTH......Page 323
EYSENCK’S MODEL OF SMOKING BEHAVIOUR......Page 326
REFERENCES......Page 329
18. Smoking and Health......Page 333
HERESY AND ITS FOUNDATIONS......Page 335
COMMON GROUND AMONG HERETICS......Page 336
EYSENCK’S PERSPECTIVE......Page 338
OTHER APPROACHES......Page 344
AN OPTIMUM STRATEGY?......Page 347
REFERENCES......Page 348
SPIELBERGER REPLIES TO BURCH......Page 351
BURCH REPLIES TO SPIELBERGER......Page 352
REFERENCE......Page 353
Part XI: Astrology and Parapsychology......Page 354
Demonstration Studies......Page 355
Trait Correlates of ESP Performance......Page 356
State Variables and ESP......Page 358
The Study of ESP: Conclusions......Page 359
ASTROLOGY......Page 360
What’s Your Sign?......Page 361
Cosmic Clocks: The Research of the Gauquelins......Page 363
PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND ASTROLOGY: STATUS AND PROSPECTS......Page 367
REFERENCES......Page 368
Eysenck’s First Involvement with Astrology......Page 372
The Mayo Study......Page 374
Response by Scientists......Page 375
Conclusion......Page 377
Eysenck’s Early Writings on Parapsychology......Page 378
Eysenck’s Recent Writings......Page 380
Fraud, Trickery and Credulity......Page 381
Conclusion......Page 383
REFERENCES......Page 384
Note......Page 386
SARGENT REPLIES TO NIAS AND DEAN......Page 387
REFERENCE......Page 388
REFERENCES......Page 389
Part XII: Concluding Chapter......Page 390
21. Consensus and Controversy—Two Types of Science......Page 391
1 Behaviour Therapy......Page 394
2 Psychotherapy......Page 396
3 Parapsychology and Smoking......Page 398
4 The Psychology of Politics......Page 402
5 Personality......Page 404
6 Intelligence......Page 406
7 Genetics......Page 409
8 Sex and Marriage......Page 411
REFERENCES......Page 413
Author Index......Page 415
Subject Index......Page 430