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The Effects of Exposure Time in Immediate Recall on Abnormal and Questionnaire Criteria of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. C. Brengelmann*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5

Extract

The present investigation deals with the effects of two lengths of exposure time in neurotic and schizophrenic subjects, and with the relations between these effects and measures of extraversion, neuroticism and rigidity. A consideration of previous work, discussed in the following paragraphs, led to three main predictions concerning varying exposure times.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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