Actual similarity on a variety of attributes (sociodemographic, background characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors) was investigated in a large sample of friendship pairs among 773 high school boys and 1,106 girls. The data were collected through structured, self-administered questionnaires in classrooms. (Author/JMB)

Three studies examined the hypothesis that if discrimination is mediated through the perception of the out-group as a deindividuated unit, then individuation of the out-group should lessen the intergroup distinction, thereby ameliorating the bias. Subjects were college students. (Author/MP)

Two experiments were conducted to examine the hypotheses that physical aggression and fantasy aggression would lead to a preference for viewing violence. Subjects were college students. (MP)

This study tests the hypothesis that perceived freedom is a function of the probability that actors will behave in a line with their dispositions by varying the pattern of extrinsic rewards associated with the behavior alternatives. Subjects in both experiments are college students. (CM)

Value changes among three groups of Dartmouth College students are examined as studied between 1931 and 1956 and restudied as alumni between 1952 and 1969. (Author/KM)

Attempts to relate psychological reactance and conformity and concludes that the social situation and personality factors necessarily play a part in specifications of the psychological reactance concept. (MB)