20 first-year psychology students and 20 non-majors were asked to compare and evaluate excerpts from therapy sessions by Albert Ellis and a Rogerian therapist. Both groups favored rational-emotive over client-centered therapy on all therapeutic dimensions assessed except that the majority of the psychology students perceived the latter therapy to produce greater feelings of comfort in the therapeutic session.
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