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Bruehl, Dieter; Solar, Diana – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
Two groups of paid female students were employed in a modified Aronson and Carlsmith (1962) expectancy-performance design. Overall results did not support predictions derived from dissonance theory. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Expectation, Motivation
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Bar-Eli, Michael; Tenenbaum, Gershon – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
Basketball experts (N=28) responded to "rule- and norm-related behavior" questionnaire, assessing crisis relevance of behaviors which were against rules of situation and were either fair or unfair, called or not called by officials. Results revealed that officials' calls and fairness of violations substantially influenced diagnostic…
Descriptors: Athletics, Basketball, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards
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Haines, Phil; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1980
Examined whether a measure of self-reported, task-specific, efficacy expectations would correspond more with persistence or locus of control. Results indicated that beliefs in locus of control were strongly related to persistence and that efficacy expectations were not as significant. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Foreign Countries
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Heslin, Richard; Collins, Jack – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Other-directed (interpersonally sensitive) or inner-directed (interpersonally less sensitive) students (N=80) observed a videotape of a person acting in either a role-consonant or a role-deviant manner. As expected, there was significantly less variance among the ratings when other-directed observers viewed role-deviant behavior than in the other…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation