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The experiment compared 72 hospitalized psychoneurotics and/or alcoholics, who were high in depression and anxiety, or low on these measures, on ability to solve a concept-identification problem. Those who were high in depression and anxiety showed fewer errors to solution of the problem than those who were low. This finding was not attributable to differences in years of education, drug regimen, or any apparent demographic variables.
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This investigation was supported in part by Veterans Administration Research Service funds, MRIS 7089-07, and by a grant from the Laboratories Division, Pfizer Corporation, New York, who also supplied the drugs utilized. The authors wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance in patient evaluation and data analysis from James C. Spalding, MD, Archie B. Blackburn, MD, Robert G. Lenk, Monte L. Stahl, Andrew Karim, Gayle A. Pishkin, Jay T. Shurley, MD, and Betsy E. Lawrence, PhD.
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Pishkin, V., Fishkin, S.M. & Lovallo, W.R. Comparison of cognitive performance in subjects high and low in anxiety and depression. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 243–244 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336819
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