Tests the hypotheses that persons who commit harmful acts do something altruistic after harm-doing because of guilt; and that persons who witness harm do something altruistic after witnessing harm to maintain their belief in a just world." (MB)

This study tests the hypothesis that perceived freedom is a function of the probability that actors will behave in a line with their dispositions by varying the pattern of extrinsic rewards associated with the behavior alternatives. Subjects in both experiments are college students. (CM)

Tests the hypothesis that an ingratiating subordinate will receive more rewards when the one in power is also faced with a hostile subordinate. Finds that an ingratiating subordinate receives more than his share of rewards regardless, and that all compliant subordinates receive even more when a hostile subordinate is present. (MB)

This study, concerned with distinguishing between the public and private determinants of self-presentational strategy, tests the hypothesis that one consequence of another's prior knowledge about a person is an implicit pressure on that person to act in a way consistent with what the other already knows about him or her. Subjects were 90…