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ERIC Number: EJ376526
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Improving Exam Performance with the Clenched Fist Technique.
Stanton, Harry E.
College Teaching, v36 n3 p107-109 Sum 1988
The use of one specific ego-enhancing hypnotic approach, a technique that employs a conditioned "trigger," the clenched fist, to facilitate the changing of troublesome emotional states, is described. Forty first-year university students were the subjects of the study. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Hypnosis, Positive Reinforcement, Self Esteem, Test Anxiety, Test Wiseness, Tests
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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