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Cochran, L. R. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Adult subjects (N=10) were studied to determine whether inconsistent information about others produces more discrimination of people or leads to alternative ways of categorizing. Pretest-posttest indications indicated inconsistency produced more discrimination of others and alternative ways of categorizing others. (SBP)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Discriminant Analysis
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Hines, 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
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Bearison, David J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
The relationship between the ability to coordinate social perspectives and levels of anxiety induced by the social context was studied. Results showed a relative failure to coordinate perspectives in the "anxious" compared with the "neutral" condition and were discussed in terms of social contextual effects on aspects of social cognitive…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Individual Differences
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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