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Peer reviewedEdelmann, Robert J.; Hampson, Sarah E. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Subject pairs (N=18) participated in an alternating question-and-answer session at one of two interactional distances utilizing questions which increased in their intimacy content. Results indicated topic intimacy, but not distance, affected the embarrassment potential of the situation. Increases in embarrassment caused changes in nonverbal and…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Coping, Distance
Peer reviewedHines, Melissa; Mehrabian, Albert – Social Behavior and Personality, 1979
The pleasure-arousal hypothesis predicts an interaction between pleasure and arousal levels in determining approach-avoidance, such that approach increases with arousal in pleasant settings and decreases with arousal in unpleasant settings. Results support this hypothesis. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Affiliation Need, Arousal Patterns
