ABSTRACT
Hypnotic techniques permitted an unprecedented degree of rigor and control, which make possible such a molecular approach. A different line of investigation by P. J. Geiwitz applied the cognitive arousal cues and other hypnotic programming techniques in a comprehensive experimental approach to the phenomenon of boredom. The foregoing series of investigations into the concept of cognitive reverberation illustrates the heuristic interplay of conceptual model and hypnotic research methodology. A subsequent investigation in that same series sought to break anxiety down into its cognitive and organismic components, a distinction between the vague feeling that "something bad is going to happen" and the physio-logical concomitants of anxiety. A sharp distinction is continually preserved between the "outside world" and the laboratory, so that crossing the threshold signifies the transition from one realm to the other. This psychological separation further cuts down the possibility for laboratory responses to occur outside.
