Undergraduates were led to believe they had been charged with wrongdoing of which they knew they were innocent. The charge was tried and the subjects' outcomes were determined, using adversary or nonadversary procedures found previously to be high or low in perceived procedural justice. (Author/RH)

Investigates three kinds of disparagement variables that had previously been shown to affect funniness in order to explore their effect on resolution as well as funniness. It was predicted that the disparagement variables would affect rated resolution in a way that paralleled their effect on rated funniness. (Author/RH)

Black and White preadolescents rated ambiguously aggressive behaviors (AABs) as more mean and threatening when perpetrators were Black. Ratings of personal characteristics were generally determined by individual behavior, not by stereotypes. Blacks were rated as stronger than Whites. Whites tended to read threat into AABs and assume perpetrators…

As temporal distance from an event increased, individuals both interpreted their own behavior and outcomes as being more due to situational influences and perceived their behavior to have been more similar to the behavior of others. Further, differences in attributions of actors and observers narrowed as temporal distance from the target event…

Two experiments examined Lakoff's suggestion that men and women use different speech styles (women's speech being more polite and less assertive than men's). The effects of undergraduate students' use of three linguistic variables (tag questions, qualifiers, and compound requests) on person perception was tested. (CM)