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Peer reviewedSjoberg, Lennart – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
Investigated expected outcome on a test as a determinant of mood among college students. No correlation between mood and expected result was found. However, anticipated emotions, attributions of the expected result to chance and attribution of mood to the exam did correlated with mood. Female students were more affected than males. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Expectation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGilbert, Steven J.; Stephan, Lin – Social Behavior and Personality, 1984
Conducted two studies in which subjects (N=345) read descriptions of stereotypic behavior displayed by a seven-year-old boy or girl and predicted adult personality attributes. Results showed that irrespective of sex, the feminine child was predicted to be happier, more mature, less self-centered, and more expressive. (LLL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, College Students, Early Experience
Peer reviewedPietromonaco, Paula R.; Nisbett, Richard E. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Examined whether reading the Darley and Batson study served to change subjects' understanding of the determinants of helping, and if subjects would come to regard degree of hurry as an important predictor in similar helping situations. Found subjects predicting helping behavior in similar situations were influenced moderately by hurry. (RC)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Peer reviewedSarup, Gian – Social Behavior and Personality, 1981
Contrasted three major theories on attitude change: cognitive dissonance, incentive, and social judgment. Results from student questionnaires provided little support for cognitive dissonance. Also provided credible, though overlapping, evidence for incentive and social judgment theories. Improvised role playing produced more change than did…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Peer reviewedKluger, Avraham N.; Koslowsky, Meni – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
College students (N=39) completed five parts of a modified version of Rusbult and Farrell's commitment questionnaire. Responses were correlated with the students' final course grade in calculus, grade point average, and grade in humanities. Results showed that the investment model significantly predicted calculus grade and grade point average.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Calculus, College Students
Peer reviewedMcIntosh, Everton G. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1989
Examined relationship between jealousy and self-esteem, insecurity, external locus of control, and sex in undergraduates (N=128) from a predominantly Black university. Determined self-esteem and insecurity accounted for 28 percent of variance in jealousy; external locus of control did not account for significant amount of variance in jealousy.…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Higher Education, Jealousy
Peer reviewedBrigham, John C.; Severy, Lawrence J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Measures of racial attitude, conceptual style, commitment to candidate and electoral process, social-political evaluation, and voting intentions, were administered to white college students (N=320) before the 1972 Presidential election. Prediction of behavioral intentions becomes more powerful as attitudinal measures are made more directly…
Descriptors: Bias, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Personality Assessment
