Managing aggressive thoughts and feelings with daily counts of non-aggressive thoughts and feelings: A self-experiment

This article describes a self-experiment with a participant managing aggres sive thoughts and feelings. The participant counted occurrences of aggressi ve thoughts and feelings per 24h, and displayed these data on Standard Cele ration Charts. Our experimental questions addressed the effects of daily 1- minute counts or non-aggressive thoughts and feelings, and daily distribute d series of six 10-second counts of non-aggressive thoughts and feelings on the occurrences of aggressive thoughts and feelings. We used an A1-B1-C1-D 2-C2-A2 experimental design to analyze data from the I-minute counts and th e six 10-second distributed counts as these conditions alternated around tw o baseline conditions. Compared to the baseline, less aggressive thoughts a nd feelings occurred during both independent variable conditions. The six 1 0-second distributed counts produced lower frequencies of aggressive though ts and feelings than the I-minute counts. At the end of the second six 10-s econd counting procedure and during the second baseline, the participant mo st frequently had 0 aggressive thoughts and feelings per day. (C) 2001 Else vier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.