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Gleason, James M.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
Four-man groups participated in a model-building task as a group. Medium Machs were rated as leaders significantly more than High or Low Machs. Low Structure increased emergent leadership across Machiavellianism level, while High Structure increased group members' satisfaction. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Group Dynamics, Leadership, Leadership Styles
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Smith, Ronald E.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Subjects (N=80) made expectancy of success statements in a dart throwing task under two conditions. Significant differences between criterion groups were obtained, with success statements remaining constant across difficulty levels in the relative criterion condition while declining rapidly as a function of task difficulty in the absolute…
Descriptors: College Students, Expectation, Motivation, Performance Criteria
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Bart, William M.; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1979
Five Inhelder-Piaget formal operations tasks were analyzed to determine the extent that the formal operational skills they assess were ordered into a stable hierarchy generalizable across samples of subjects. Subjects were 34 collegiate gymnasts (19 males, 15 females), and 22 students (1 male, 21 females) from a university nursing program.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students
O'Connor, Edward J.; And Others – 1977
Ninety subjects completed identical simulated maintenance tasks under two experimental conditions. In the high job structural attribute condition subjects were told that the task was high in learning new skills, responsibility, feedback, and task identity; while in the low job structural condition they were told the opposite. Results indicated the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, College Students, Electronic Equipment