Defensiveness and Individual Response Stereotypy in Asthma
Jonathan M. Feldman, MS,
Paul M. Lehrer, PhD,
Stuart M. Hochron, MD and
Gary E. Schwartz, PhD
From the Department of Psychology (J.M.F.), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Department of Psychiatry (P.M.L.) and Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (S.M.H.), Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ; and Department of Psychology (G.E.S.), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

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Fig. 1. Comparison between nondefensive and defensive patients on changes from pretask to posttask in FEV1/FVC, %FEV1, and %FEF50%.
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