The three field experiments reported here are part of a continuing investigation of the social conditions which cause one person to experience tension coordinated to another's goal attainment. (Editor/RK)

Two experiments replicated and extended the "mere exposure" effect across the variables of race, sex, and level of initial favorability. (Editor)

The present experiment was conducted as a test of the social facilitation and objective self awareness theories. Subjects performed a learning task either alone or before a nonevaluative audience. (Author)

Article investigated the cognitive and motivational mechanisms that may underlie the persuasion inhibiting effects of forewarning. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of the present study is to reevaluate Festinger's similarity hypothesis and to investigate the relative strengths of the desire to compare with similar others and the desire to compare with those who are best off. (Author)

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the relative reliabilities and validities of the Lijkert, Thurstone, Guilford, and semantic differential techniques using a multitrait-multimethod paradigm with theoretically uncorrelated attitude objects. (Author)

Belief in the possibility of demonstrating ESP on an experimental task and evaluation of ESP were independently manipulated in two laboratory studies investigating the relationship between these varaibles and ESP task performance. (Editor)

Five experiments were conducted in which subjects were asked to attribute attitudes to target persons on the basis of opinion statements written under high constraints, i.e., the target persons were instructed to prepare the statements but were given no choice concerning the position to be endorsed. (Editor)

Results of 3 experiments showed that self-focused attention lowered self esteem given negative feedback, while there was a tendency toward the opposite result given positive feedback.'' (Author)

The aim of the present study was to reestablish more firmly the position stated by Bem and McConnell (1970), to the effect that the dissonance and self-prediction theories do not generate unequivocally conflicting predictions. (Author/RK)

Behavior and attitudes may often appear unrelated in part because behavior may be viewed by individuals themselves as a response to specific situational factors rather than to attitudes. Two useful approaches to the issue have been provided by research concerning commitment to one's attitude position and ego-involvement with the attitude issue.…

The present experiment sought to investigate the hypothesis that exposure to nonhostile humor would be highly effective in reducing the level of aggression subsequently evidenced by angry individuals. (Author/RK)

Neutral outcomes tended to produce situational attribution, success produced self-attribution, and failure produced partner attribution under cooperation but situational attribution under competition; results discussed from standpoint of two theories of responsibility attribution. (Author)

This study examined whether dissonance is, phenomenologically, an aversive state. Experimental subjects were induced to write counterattitudinal essays under a high-choice condition. Evaluates subjects' reactions toward taking pills designed to bring about dissonance. (Editor/RK)