The purpose of the present study was threefold: a) to evaluate the standing on emotional intelligence of National Hockey League players, relative to the general population, b) to evaluate the relationship of draft rank and emotional intelligence (EI) measures to hockey performance, and c) to evaluate the relative predictive value of these measures to performance indices: total NHL points and NHL games played. During the 2003-04 hockey season, 79 players across 24 NHL teams completed the Bar-On EQ-i. The findings indicated that years-since-draft was the strongest predictor of performance and draft rank was the weakest predictor of performance. With respect to EI, both intrapersonal competency and general mood added significant variance to predictions of number of NHL points and games played. Implications for predicting performance in the NHL, amongst draft prospects, is discussed. RésuméLe but que poursuit la présente étude se divise en trois volets : a) évaluer l'intelligence émotionnelle chez les joueurs de la Ligue nationale de hockey par rapport à la population; b) évaluer la relation entre le classement au repêchage et les mesures de l'intelligence émotionnelle (EI) et la performance au hockey; c) évaluer la valeur pré-dictive relative de ces mesures sur les index de performance suivants : nombre total de points récoltés dans la LNH et nombre de parties jouées dans la LNH. Pendant la saison de hockey 2003-2004, 79 joueurs provenant des 24 équipes de la LNH ont répondu au test QE-i de Bar-On. Les résultats ont indiqué que le nombre d'années écoulées depuis le repêchage était le plus puissant pré-dicteur de la performance tandis que le classement au repêchage était le plus faible prédicteur de la performance. En ce qui a trait à l'IE, les compétences intrapersonnelles et l'humeur générale ajoutaient toutes deux une variance significative aux prédictions relatives au nombre de points récoltés dans la LNH et au nombre de parties jouées. On discute, pour finir, des répercussions de la pré-diction de la performance dans la LNH chez les candidats au repêchage.

Younger people are perceived as possessing a host of socially desirable attributes, some of which are the same traits attributed to attractive people. In the present study, 160 younger and older White Canadians rated the attractiveness and personality traits of 1 of 4 target women. The results indicated an interaction between the participant's age and gender and the age and attractiveness of the target person. Both younger and older judges showed an attractiveness bias and downrated the social desirability of younger unattractive targets. Younger judges rated younger and older attractive targets as equal in social desirability. Older male judges rated older attractive targets as less socially desirable than younger attractive targets. Results are discussed in terms of cultural expectations of beauty.

Two experiments compared placebo and hypnotic analgesia in high and low hypnotizable subjects. Experiment 1 demonstrated that hypnotic and placebo analgesia were equally ineffective in low hypnotizables, but that hypnotic analgesia was much more effective than placebo analgesia in high hypnotizables. Experiment 2 replicated these results, but also included low and high hypnotizables who were given a nonhypnotic suggestion for analgesia. Both the low and high hypnotizables in this group reported greater suggested than placebo analgesia and as much suggested analgesia as high hypnotizable hypnotic subjects. Both experiments found substantial discrepancies between the amount of pain reduction subjects expected from the various treatments and the amount of pain reduction they actually reported following exposure to those treatments. In Experiment 2, subjects in all treatments who reduced reported pain engaged in more cognitive coping and less catastrophizing than those who did not reduce pain. Theoretical implications are discussed.

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