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Necker cube reversals, arousal and psychopathy
Author(s) -
Lidberg L.,
Levander S. E.,
Schalling D.,
Lidberg Y.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00293.x
Subject(s) - psychology , arousal , novelty , psychopathy , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , session (web analytics) , stress (linguistics) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , personality , artificial intelligence , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , world wide web
Necker cube reversals were studied in a group of 24 arrested men in three experimental sessions; two weeks, one week and immediately before trial. The first session was assumed to represent a moderate laboratory stress due to the novelty of the situation, and the last session a real‐life stress associated with anticipation of appearing in court. Both were superimposed on the sustained real‐life stress of being in jail. There were no stress‐related changes between the three sessions in the rate of apparent change (RAC) of the Necker cube. The intra‐individual stability of RAC was extremely high. There were significant positive correlations between RAC in all sessions, and a psychopathy‐related inventory scale, the Gough delinquency scale.