Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater: The catharsis hypothesis revisited†

  1. Joan Murray,
  2. Seymour Feshbach*

Article first published online: 28 APR 2006

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1978.tb01012.x

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Journal of Personality

Journal of Personality

Volume 46, Issue 3, pages 462–473, September 1978

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Murray, J. and Feshbach, S. (1978), Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater: The catharsis hypothesis revisited. Journal of Personality, 46: 462–473. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1978.tb01012.x

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles

*Requests for reprints should be sent to Seymour Feshbach, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024.

  • †

    . The authors wish to thank Jacqueline Goodchilds, Ph.D., James Murray, and Gary Wolfe, Ph.D., for their careful readings of this paper; and Anna Kun, Ph.D., and Ted Nickel, Ph.D., for their assistance in various phases of the study. The authors also wish to express sincere thanks to Paul R. Abramson, Ph.D., for his assistance with the revised version of this paper.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 28 APR 2006
  2. Article first published online: 28 APR 2006
  3. Manuscript received March 7, 1977.

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