Paul Swingle

Swingle Clinic

This clinical manual argues for using neurotherapy to enhance mental health and medical practice across settings and specialties. The text takes readers through the tools and methods of neurotherapy: the ClinicalQ for intake assessment, a stimulated EEG modality called braindriving, and neurofeedback protocols to retrain brain function. Case studie...

Previous research has shown that the suppression of theta wave activity and the enhancement of sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) through electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback is an effective treatment for epilepsy. The current research reports the results of EEG biofeedback treatment for patients presenting with seizure behaviors in the absence of elip...

Describes a series of studies investigating the influence of predisposition, structure, and experience on interpersonal conflict. These factors are all inextricably and nonrecursively related. Structure and predisposition influence motive and perceived motive. Experiencing cooperation in a dynamic process conflict situation had little influence on...

Reports an error in "Temporal measures of vocalization: Some methodological considerations" by Paul G. Swingle (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1984[Dec], Vol 47[6], 1263-1280). The copyright notice was inadvertently omitted. The notice that should have appeared on the first page of this article is provided in the erratum. (The follow...

[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 48(2) of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2008-10973-001). The copyright notice was inadvertently omitted. The notice that should have appeared on the first page of this article is provided in the erratum.] Five studies—with 164 university students, 56 mil...

Studied 180 female undergraduates playing a Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), chicken, or power game for 100 trials under 1 of 3 communication conditions: forced, optional, or no communication. In the forced and optional conditions, Ss were either required or permitted to write a note to the other player every 15th trial for 5 communicative opportunities. A...

Conducted 5 experiments to test the hypothesis that nonuse, and under certain conditions, decreasing use, of power invites exploitation. 76 naval recruits and 60 male undergraduates served as Ss. In non-zero-sum games, virtually unconditionally cooperative opponents were exploited more when they were powerful than when they were weak. Such behavior...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts, 1964. Microfilm.

Tested 60 male graduate students in 50 short races against a programed opponent (O). The S won either 10 (W10), 50 (W50), or 90% (W90) of the races under high challenge (all races close) or low challenge. Although the immediate effect of winning was a reduction in response speed on the following trial, average total speed increased directly with th...

Involved 64 male Canadian postgraduate students whose 1st language was either English (EC) or French (FC) in the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game against a bogus O who was represented as either an EC or FC. 1/2 the Ss expected to meet O after the experiment, while the other 1/2 were assured of anonymity. As predicted, both EC and FC were more forgiving...

96 middle class (MC) and lower class (LC) 6-, 10-, and 15-yr-old schoolchildren lever pressed for a 2 min. practice, followed by a 5-min session reinforced on a fixed-interval 30-sec schedule with money, a verbalism ("good"), both money plus "good," or nothing. Results indicate that MC sensitivity to verbal incentive and LC sensitivity to monetary...

Male Ss were exposed for 0, 5, 10, 20, or 40 trials to a 5% or 95% cooperative partner, followed by 60 trials of either 95% or 5% cooperation. Pretraining on 5% prior to 95% cooperative strategy suppressed noncooperative responding when the partner was unconditionally cooperative. The decay of the enhanced cooperation was retarded by longer trainin...

STUDIED PAIRS OF MALE SS WHO PLAYED A "DANGEROUS" GAME (E.G., A THREAT EXPOSES BOTH PLAYERS TO RISK OF LARGE LOSS) FOR 100 TRIALS UNDER 1 OF 3 IMPOSED POWER STRUCTURES: (1) ABSOLUTE POWER IN WHICH 1 MEMBER OF THE DYAD HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OVER GOAL ATTAINMENT, (2) ILLUSORY POWER IN WHICH THE WEKER PLAYER RETAINED THE POWER TO INFLICT MUTUAL LOSS, A...

48 9-10TH GRADE MALE STUDENTS INVOLVED IN A 100-TRIAL PRISONER'S DILEMMA GAME WERE INITIALLY EXPOSED TO EITHER A 95% OR 5% COOPERATIVE STRATEGY ATTRIBUTED TO A PARTNER FOR WHOM THEY HAD INDICATED LIKING, DISLIKING, OR NO SPECIFIED RELATIONSHIP. FOLLOWING 50 TRIALS OF THE INITIAL STRATEGY, THE PARTNER ABRUPTLY SHIFTED HIS STRATEGY FROM EITHER 95% TO...

MALE SS INITIALLY EXPOSED TO EITHER A 100% COOPERATIVE OR 0% COOPERATIVE PARTNER FOR 50 TRIALS IN A PRISONER'S DILEMMA GAME WERE EXPOSED, DURING TRIALS 51-100, TO A PARTNER WHOSE STRATEGY WAS EITHER 0, 25, 50, OR 100% COOPERATIVE. STRATEGY CHANGE RESULTED IN INCREASED VARIABILITY IN S'S STRATEGY ALTHOUGH MEAN NUMBER OF COOPERATIVE RESPONSES WAS NOT...

Pairs of male students, having specific extra-laboratory affective relationships, competed for a prize in a 2-person game. An uncooperative partner resulted in a reduction in S's level of cooperative responding when the partner was either liked or unknown, but the initial level of cooperativeness was maintained when the partner was disliked. The re...