Effectiveness of complementary projection in reducing stress.
Threatened Ss in five stress groups with electric shock, while Ss in a sixth group were not threatened. In one of the stress groups Ss were encouraged to project causality for their feelings that resulted from the threat of shock to the E instead of to the shock, while Ss in the remaining stress groups were not encouraged to project causality for the threat-produced affects to the E. Physiological and self-report measures indicated that Ss who projected their anxiety and nervousness to the E were just as distressed by the veridical source of arousal as were Ss who did not project. Implications of these results for the hypothesized stress-reducing effectiveness of complementary projection were discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004597:Electroshock; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D011385:Projection; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013315:Stress, Psychological