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Campbell, John B.; Hawley, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Tested predictions derived from Eysenck's theory of personality in two samples by relating extraversion scores to library study locations, frequency of study breaks, and self-report of factors which influence study location. Found predicted main effects for study location with extraverts occupying locations that provided greater external…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Tesler, Burt S.; Alker, Henry A. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1983
Proposed a conceptual distinction between two types of experienced power and examined its relevance to participation in power-relaxed activities. After two college football games, spectators chose an image-of-power position after a hometeam defeat, and an actual-power position after a hometeam victory. Experiences of vicarious success or failure…
Descriptors: Audiences, College Students, Failure, Football
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Cheek, Jonathan M.; Briggs, Stephen R. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Investigated the relationship between public and private self-consciousness and social and personal aspects of identity. Public self-consciousness correlated more strongly with social than with personal aspects of identity, and private self-consciousness correlated more strongly with personal than with social aspects. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Personality Theories
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Arkin, Robert M.; Lake, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1983
Reviews the utility of the "bogus pipeline" attitude measurement technique. The present conceptual replication failed entirely to produce the Cherry (1976) finding, showing a tendency for responsiveness to demand characteristics only among subjects responding via "paper and pencil." This finding is consistent with the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Williams, Sarah; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Tested the prediction that individual differences in sensation seeking moderate the relationship between attitudinal similarity and attraction. Results showed high sensation seekers were more attracted than low sensation seekers to dissimilar others, whereas low sensation seekers were more attracted than high sensation seekers to people with…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attitudes, College Students, Emotional Response
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Donat, Dennis C. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1983
Examined whether a total score on a multidimensional measure of trait anxiety could supplement the ability of individual dimension scale scores in predicting state anxiety responses to dimension-congruent stress. Results support the multidimensional approach to general trait anxiety but indicate that a total score would supplement predictions.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Emotional Response, Higher Education