Astrology Related Abstracts: PsychLIT Database 3/9
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TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Born under a bad sign? Astrological sign and
suicide ideation.
AU AUTHOR(S): Stack,-Steven; Lester,-David
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: Auburn U, AL, US
JN JOURNAL NAME: Perceptual-and-Motor-Skills; 1988 Apr Vol 66(2)
461-462
AB ABSTRACT: Data from a national sample of 7,508 Ss was used to
test the thesis that internalization of the traits associated with
astrological signs affects suicide ideation. Only the most
negativistic sign of Pisces was significantly associated with
suicide ideation. (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1989 American
Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 76-08850
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Superstition among college students.
AU AUTHOR(S): Bhushan,-Rajnish; Bhushan,-L.-I.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: AN Coll, Patna,
India
JN JOURNAL NAME: Asian-Journal-of-Psychology-and-Education; 1987
Jul Vol 19(4) 11-16
AB ABSTRACT: Administered a superstition scale to ascertain
superstitions relating to luck and fate, sorcery, magic and ghosts,
religion, and astrology, as well as social and personal life, among
400 students in 2 Indian colleges. A 2 by 2 factorial design was
used (male and female, arts and science). A t -test and analysis
of variance (ANOVA) indicated that the 4 groups differed
significantly on interaction of sex and faculty of education.
Female Ss reading in the faculty of arts scored highest on
superstition, while male Ss of the science faculty were least
superstitious. (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1989 American
Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 76-08415
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: The validity of astrological statements.
AU AUTHOR(S): Angenent,-Huub; de-Man,-Anton-F.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: State U, Groningen,
Netherlands
JN JOURNAL NAME: Psychological-Reports; 1988 Apr Vol 62(2) 650
AB ABSTRACT: Tested the validity of astrological statements by
comparing astrological reports on 30 individuals with evaluations
from psychologists and from a randomly chosen fellow S of the same
sex. Agreement of astrological reports with psychologists and with
others was 73 and 50%, respectively. (PsycLIT Database Copyright
1989 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 76-07002
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Hysterie et societes. (Hysteria and societies.)
Seventh Annual Meeting of the French Psychiatric Association:
Hysteria, one hundred years later (1968, Paris, France).
AU AUTHOR(S): Martino,-Paul; Moreigne,-Jean-Paul;
le-Guerinel,-Norbert
JN JOURNAL NAME: Psychiatrie-Francaise; 1988 May Vol 19 159-166
AB ABSTRACT: Discusses hysteria, its role in different societies,
and the latter's tolerance, integration, or refusal to accept it.
Specific societies and different cultural climates influence
differently the development of the hysterical phenomenon; some of
them treat it as demoniac possession. Western society may be trying
to exorcise hysteria in its own way by denying its existence and
eliminating the term from its medical vocabulary, following the
example of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-III). One no longer sees hysterical patients, only
depressives; what used to be female hysteria is now male
depression. Western society, which tolerates astrology, exotic
cults, and quackery, no longer allows hysteria to express itself.
(0 ref) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1989 American Psychological
Assn, all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 26-73429
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Month of birth of suicides, homicides and
natural deaths.
AU AUTHOR(S): Lester,-David
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: Richard Stockton
State Coll, Psychology Program, Pomona, NJ, US
JN JOURNAL NAME: Psychological-Reports; 1987 Jun Vol 60(3, Pt 2)
1310
AB ABSTRACT: Presents data revealing no significant variation over
month of birth or astrological sign for suicides, homicides, or
natural deaths recorded in 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(PsycLIT Database Copyright 1988 American Psychological Assn, all
rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 75-29899
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Astrology and mental health.
AU AUTHOR(S): Tyagi,-T.-S.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: Hosp for Mental
Diseases, Delhi, India
JN JOURNAL NAME: Journal-of-Personality-and-Clinical-Studies; 1987
Mar Vol 3(1) 63-66
AB ABSTRACT: Discusses astrology as both a science and an art--a
science in the form of setting up a horoscope (an exacting process
because each factor has to be calculated and measured) and an art
in that the astrologer learns to become skilled in the
interpretation of a horoscope. Astrology is purported to offer a
greater understanding of both problems and self. It can also tell
when to time what is wanted for best results, so that a person can
gain insight into the situation in which he/she is involved, and in
which direction action should be taken. (PsycLIT Database Copyright
1988 American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 75-20154
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Using astrology to teach research methods to
introductory psychology students.
AU AUTHOR(S): Ward,-Roger-A.; Grasha,-Anthony-F.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: U Cincinnati
JN JOURNAL NAME: Teaching-of-Psychology; 1986 Oct Vol 13(3)
143-145
AB ABSTRACT: Describes a classroom activity designed to test an
astrological hypothesis that can help teach introductory psychology
students about research design and data interpretation. The
activity illustrates differences between science and nonscience,
the role of theory in developing and testing hypotheses, making
comparisons among groups, probability and statistical significance,
and the complications involved in interpreting research data.
(PsycLIT Database Copyright 1987 American Psychological Assn, all
rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 74-32741
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Investigating the paranormal.
AU AUTHOR(S): Marks,-David-F.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: U Otago, Dunedin,
New Zealand
JN JOURNAL NAME: Nature; 1986 Mar Vol 320(6058) 119-124
AB ABSTRACT: Summarizes the common assumptions on which claims of
parascience are based. Theoretical assumptions, methodological
problems, and psychological factors are discussed that are argued
to be unsupported by a single repeatable finding. Examples of
effects that can now be explained from within orthodox science
include Kirlian photography, fire-walking, dowsing, psychic
surgery, and astrology. Mental imagery, coincidences, unseen
causes, and the will to believe explain many other phenomena. The
author maintains that parascience is a pseudoscientific system of
untestable beliefs steeped in illusion, error, and fraud. (68 ref)
(PsycLIT Database Copyright 1987 American Psychological Assn, all
rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 74-12234
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Season of birth and personality: Another
instance of noncorrespondence.
AU AUTHOR(S): Hentschel,-Uwe; Kiessling,-M.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: Johannes Gutenberg-U
Mainz, West Germany
JN JOURNAL NAME: Journal-of-Social-Psychology; 1985 Oct Vol 125(5)
577-585
AB ABSTRACT: Compared the positions of astrology and chronobiology
and investigated the relation between season of birth and
personality. The hypotheses were formulated after the data for
another, earlier study by U. Hentschel (1980) had been collected.
In it, 154 women (mean age 29.5 yrs) had been tested with
paper-and-pencil self-report inventories (i.e., the
Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, a scale of intolerance of
ambiguity) and an experimentally oriented cognitive test battery
with 10 tasks. For the present study, data were submitted to a
further analysis that considered the previously ignored influence
of season of birth. These hypothetical influences could not be
demonstrated with a significance greater than could have been
expected by chance. It is suggested that psychological variables
yield better explanations for personality traits and behavior. (24
ref) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1987 American Psychological Assn,
all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 74-10265
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TI DOCUMENT TITLE: A double-blind test of astrology.
AU AUTHOR(S): Carlson,-Shawn
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: Lawrence Berkeley
Labs, Berkeley, CA
JN JOURNAL NAME: Nature; 1985 Dec Vol 318(6045) 419-425
AB ABSTRACT: Tested the accuracy of astrological natal charts in
describing the personality traits of 193 Ss (aged 17+ yrs). In Exp
I, Ss provided information from which their natal charts and
interpretations were constructed by astrologers. Each S then
attempted to select his/her own natal chart interpretation from a
group consisting of his/her own and 2 others. In Exp II, the
astrologers were separately given the natal chart of a random S and
a California Psychological Inventory (CPI) description of the S's
personality traits along with CPI descriptions of 2 other Ss. The
astrologers selected the 2 CPIs (1st and 2nd choice) that described
personalities closest to the personality indicated by the natal
chart. The astrologers also rated the CPIs for closeness of fit to
the natal chart descriptions. Results indicate that Ss and
astrologers scored at a level consistent with chance. The data
support arguments against natal astrology as practiced by
astrologers. (4 ref) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1986 American
Psychological Assn, all rights reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 73-30007
TI DOCUMENT TITLE: Management selection in Britain: A survey and
critique.
AU AUTHOR(S): Robertson,-Ivan-T.; Makin,-Peter-J.
IN INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF FIRST AUTHOR: Victoria U of
Manchester, Inst of Science & Technology, England
JN JOURNAL NAME: Journal-of-Occupational-Psychology; 1986 Mar Vol
59(1) 45-57
AB ABSTRACT: Surveyed the personal managers/directors of 108 UK
organizations to determine the extent to which these organizations
employed traditional mainstream approaches to personnel selection
in which emphasis is placed on the use of interviews, psychological
tests, and/or work samples to reveal appropriate job candidates.
Results indicte that, while the use of such nonstandard personnel
selection techniques as assessment center type exercises and
biodata (i.e., personal history biographical data) is increasing,
most organizations surveyed still selected managers on the basis of
interviews and references. Handwriting analysis was employed
occasionally by 7.8% of the organizations surveyed, while astrology
was employed by 1 organization. It is argued that psychological
research and theory are inadequately used by managers to determine
appropriate and effective selection practices. The limitations of
current research and theory are discussed with regard to criterion
measures, validity and utility, and predictors. (49 ref) (PsycLIT
Database Copyright 1986 American Psychological Assn, all rights
reserved)
AN PSYC ABS. VOL. AND ABS. NO.: 73-28750