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Eliza as a “therapeutic” tool
Author(s) -
O'Dell Jerry W.,
Dickson James
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198407)40:4<942::aid-jclp2270400412>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , session (web analytics) , psychotherapist , covariance , psychoanalysis , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , world wide web
Allowed 70 undergraduate students to interact for 44 minutes with ELIZA‐ a computer simulation of psychotherapy. Their responses during the first and second halves of the session were compared and several differences were found. Removing the effect of the simple volume of responses (using the analysis of covariance) did not change the significance of many of the differences.