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Psychosomatic Medicine 33:63-84 (1971)
© 1971 American Psychosomatic Society

The Role of Body Attitudes and Acquiescence in Epinephrine and Placebo Effects

GEORGE J. FAST MD1 and SEYMOUR FISHER PhD1

1 Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center Syracuse, NY.

The principal objective was to test hypotheses concerning the role of body attitudes in response to epinephrine and placebo. A particularly important hypothesis asserted that women would be less disturbed than men by the increased body awareness produced by epinephrine. A secondary intent was to ascertain whether an individual's degree of acquiescence will predict his relative degree of response to epinephrine as compared to placebo. The subjects were 15 normal men and 15 normal women. Boundary definiteness, general body awareness and other body image measures correlated significantly with several parameters of response to epinephrine and placebo. Hypotheses concerning sex differences were supported. There was also support for the principal hypothesis involving acquiescence.

Submitted on May 26, 1970






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