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RESEARCH PRODUCT

LEVEL OF ACTIVATION AND GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR: The effect of chlorpromazine on aggressive, achievement oriented, and affiliation oriented verbal responses

Lea PitkänenMartti Takala

subject

General MedicineVerbal responsePlaceboSentence completion testsArousalDevelopmental psychologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Developmental and Educational PsychologymedicineSession (computer science)Drug intoxicationChlorpromazinePsychologyGeneral Psychologymedicine.drugClinical psychology

description

The purpose was to investigate the effect of chlorpromazine on verbal response contents in sentence completion tests. 30 male subjects participated in two chlorpromazine and one placebo session. It was found that the amount of aggressive, achievement and affiliation oriented responses was significantly reduced as an effect of drug intake. The results are discussed on the basis of the theories of conflict motivation and of arousal.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1963-03-01Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1963.tb01315.x