The Scanning Control Principle and its Relationship to Affect Manipulation

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Abstract
An experiment was carried out with 32 Ss, using hypnosis as a means of inducing an affect state. The main purpose was to test the relationship between induced affect and cognitive-perceptual behavior. The design controlled for the effects of the organismic variable of scanning. The results gave weight to the hypothesis that cognitive controls can act as regulators of an intervening affect state. High scanning Ss made fewer errors in judgment during affect manipulation while limited scanners tended to increase their error scores. A theoretical tie-in with ego psychology was proposed, based on Rapaport's and Hartmann's theory of the relative autonomy of the ego processes.

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