Reports the retraction of "Client laughter in psychodynamic psychotherapy: Not a laughing matter" by Shudarshana Gupta, Clara E. Hill and Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2018[Jul], Vol 65[4], 463-473). The following article is being retracted (https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000272). This retraction is at the request of coauthors Kivlighan and Hill after the results of an investigation by the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB found that the study included data from between one and four therapy clients of the Maryland Psychotherapy Clinic and Research Laboratory (MPCRL) who either had not been asked to provide consent or had withdrawn consent for their data to be included in the research. Gupta was not responsible for obtaining and verifying participant consent but agreed to the retraction of this article. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2018-33326-005.) We studied 814 client laughter events nested within 330 sessions nested within 33 clients nested within 16 therapists at one community clinic in which doctoral student therapists provided psychodynamic psychotherapy to adult community clients. Each laughter event in Sessions 1 to 5 and 16 to 20 was rated for cheerfulness, politeness, reflectiveness, contemptuousness, and nervousness. Across all clients, there was an average of about one laughter even per session. The average laughter event lasted 3.5 seconds, and was characterized primarily by politeness and reflectiveness. Overall amount of client laughter and the characteristics of client laughter did not change across sessions. Most of the variance in the laughter characteristics was at the session level, with less variance attributable to clients and therapists. When client attachment avoidance was high, laughter was less cheerful and more contemptuous. When client attachment anxiety was high, laughter was more nervous. Sessions with more reflective laughter were evaluated more positively by clients, and therapists whose clients had more reflective laughter had more positive client session evaluations. Furthermore, within a therapist's caseload, clients with the most nervous and contemptuous laughter evaluated sessions most positively. Implications are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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古普塔等人的撤回。（2018）。

报告撤回 Shudarshana Gupta、Clara E. Hill 和 Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. 撰写的《心理动力学心理治疗中的客户笑声：不是一件可笑的事情》（《咨询心理学杂志》，2018 年[7 月]，第 65 卷[4]，463- 473）。以下文章已被撤回（https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000272）。此次撤回是应合著者 Kivlighan 和 Hill 在马里兰大学机构审查委员会 (IRB) 调查结果出来后的要求。IRB 发现，该研究包含来自马里兰州心理治疗诊所和研究实验室 (MPCRL) 的一到四名治疗客户的数据，这些客户要么没有被要求提供同意，要么已经撤回了将其数据纳入研究的同意。古普塔不负责获取和核实参与者的同意，但同意撤回本文。（以下原文摘要出现在记录 2018-33326-005 中。）我们研究了 814 个客户笑声事件，这些事件嵌套在 330 个会话中，这些会话嵌套在一个社区诊所的 16 名治疗师的 33 个客户中，其中博士生治疗师为成人提供心理动力学心理治疗社区客户。第 1 至 5 节和第 16 至 20 节中的每个笑声事件都被评定为快乐、礼貌、反思、轻蔑和紧张。在所有客户中，每次会议平均都会有大约一次笑声。笑声平均持续3.5秒，主要特点是礼貌和反思。客户笑声的总量和客户笑声的特征在不同的会话中没有变化。笑声特征的大部分差异是在会话层面，较少的差异归因于客户和治疗师。当来访者依恋回避程度较高时，笑声就不那么欢快，而且更加轻蔑。当来访者依恋焦虑较高时，笑声会更加紧张。具有更多反思性笑声的治疗师对治疗师的客户评价更加积极，而具有更多反思性笑声的治疗师也获得了更积极的客户治疗评价。此外，在治疗师的治疗案例中，最紧张、最轻蔑的笑声的来访者对治疗的评价最为积极。讨论了影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。