Task 1: Stalking is a very disruptive and upsetting (for the person being stalked) experience in which
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Task 1: Stalking is a very disruptive and upsetting (for the person being stalked) experience in which someone (the stalker) constantly harasses or obsesses about another person. It can take many forms, from sending intensely disturbing letters threatening to boil your cat if you don't reciprocate the stalker's undeniable love for you, to literally following you around your local area in a desperate attempt to see which CD you buy on a Saturday (as if it would be anything other than Fugazi!). A psychologist, who'd had enough of being stalked by people, decided to try two differ- ent therapies on different groups of stalkers (25 stalkers in each group this variable is called Group). The first group of stalkers he gave what he termed cruel-to-be-kind therapy. This therapy was based on punishment for stalking behaviours; in short every time the stalker followed him around, or sent him a letter, the psychologist attacked them with a cattle prod until they stopped their stalking behaviour. It was hoped that the stalkers would learn an aversive reaction to anything resembling stalking. The second therapy was psychodyshamic therapy, which was a recent development on Freud's psychodynamic therapy that acknowledges what a sham this kind of treatment is (so, you could say it's based on Fraudian theory!). The stalkers were hypnotized and regressed into their childhood, the therapist would also discuss their penis (unless it was a woman in which case they discussed their lack of penis), the penis of their father, their dog's penis, the penis of the cat down the road, and anyone else's penis that sprang to mind. At the end of therapy, the psychologist measured the number of hours in the week that the stalker spent stalking their prey (this variable is called stalk2). Now, the psychologist believed that the success of therapy might well depend on how bad the problem was to begin with, so before therapy he measured the number of hours that the patient spent stalking as an indicator of how much of a stalker the person was (this variable is called stalk1). The data are in the file Stalker.sav. Analyse the effect of therapy on stalking behaviour after therapy, controlling for the amount of stalking behaviour before therapy.
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