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Abstract

Witkin's notion that articulation of body concept, i.e., experiencing the body as having definite limits or boundaries, is related to performance on a field-dependence measure was tested by taking repeated measures on the rod-and-frame test (RFT) after interpolation of body or non-body attention procedures. As hypothesized, those Ss who concentrated on the body exterior (the articulation point of the body with the field) showed a significantly greater decrease in field-dependence than either an internally oriented or control group. The failure to support the hypothesis that there would be greater field-dependence on retest for the interior group (where focus was taken away from the articulation point) than for the control group was given three possible bases: (a) bodily versus non-bodily involvement for the interior and control conditions, respectively, (b) weakness of the internal procedure, (c) failure of internal attention per se to affect field-dependence-independence.

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Induction of Field-Dependence Changes by Body Attention Procedures

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