TY - JOUR
AU - Frank, Jerome D.
AB - The Journal of General Psychology, 1944, 30, 57-64 . EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF PERSONAL PRESSURE AND RESISTANCE: . III. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF RESISTANT BEHAVIOR* The J ohms Hopkins Hospital JEROME D. FRANK, M.D. Resistance to eating soda crackers was experimentally produced in college students by assuring them that the experiment did not require them to eat, but threatening to make them eat if they refused. The two previous papers of this series discussed the effects of E's instructions and activities on creating or overcoming resistance. The present paper attempts an analysis of the re­ sistant behavior observed, and its relations to certain perceptual properties of the experimental situation. For the purpose of these experiments resistance has been defined as refusal to follow E's instructions, either verbally or by means of acts. The following results are based on records of 8's behavior made by an assistant, and by E when he was free to take notes during the experimental sessions. A. TYPES OF RESISTANCE There were three basic situations in these experiments. In the first 8 was told that the experiment required him to eat soda crackers. In the second he was told before he started to eat that the experiment 
TI - Experimental Studies of Personal Pressure and Resistance: III. Qualitative Analysis of Resistant Behavior
JF - The Journal of General Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00221309.1943.10544456
DA - 1944-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/experimental-studies-of-personal-pressure-and-resistance-iii-A4dxYmE8fa
SP - 57
EP - 64
VL - 30
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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