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Peer reviewedFoss, Robert D.; Crenshaw, Nell C. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
To examine the effects of one kind of cost on helping behavior, subjects were provided with an opportunity to help spontaneously in a nonemergency situation. Helping was more frequent in nonembarrassing conditions. Results support contentions that potential embarrassment deters helping in nonemergency situations. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Responses, Risk
Peer reviewedWallston, Barbara Strudler; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
Tests effects of two interventions upon question-asking behavior. Both treatments decreased latency of asking the first question, but only specific instructions affected total number of bids for clarification. Women predisposed to be high in assertiveness were facilitated by any intervention. Shorter latencies were associated with more knowledge.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Females, Inhibition, Inquiry
