The purpose of the present research was to determine how experimental manipulations of certainty would affect social comparison choices in the paradigm used by Wheeler et al. (1969) and Gruder (1971). (Author)

This study systematically explored the interactive effects of verbal and behavioral compliance and noncompliance by comparing the aggressiveness of the instigations of subjects who interacted with various types of partners, defined in terms of verbal compliance or noncompliance crossed by behavioral compliance or noncompliance. (Author/RK)

A multitrait-multimethod strategy was used to assess eight structural properties of cognition applied to several classes of objects by 88 university students in Boulder, Colorado, United States, and 80 university students in Kyoto and Otsu, Japan. (Editor)

As no experimental study has examined the effects of congruency on attraction, the present investigation orthogonally varied attitude similarity and interpersonal congruency in order to compare the two independent variables as determinants of interpersonal attraction. (Author/RK)

That anger engendered by means of insult or frustration is physiologically arousing has been demonstrated. This research was designed to investigate the availability of anger to misattribution, an attribution error, and, by this means, the effectiveness of misattribution in reducing aggressive behavior. (Author/RK)

The relationship between difficulty of conflict resolution and degree of avoidance was investigated in three experiments using imagery conflicts consisting of choosing to have more or less of certain personal characteristics. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study is to deconfound attitudes toward a particular concept and the belief in the existence of that concept. (Author)

Subjects were assigned the task of forming an impression of another person with information being gathered from two conflicting sources. (Editor)

Forty-eight high and forty-eight low dogmatic subjects received neutral information about fictitious countries from sources who were positive, unbiased (neutral) or negative toward the country. It was concluded that closed-minded people react to surface indicators of validity whereas open-minded people use the characteristics of a description to…

This study was designed to measure both aggressive behavior and emotional arousal following the showing of a violent episode described as either a real fight or an acted one. (Author/RK)

Eighty male college freshmen participated in an experiment designed to investigate the hypothesis that enhanced arousal will facilitate subsequent aggressive behavior and that an increase in aggressive behavior will be more likely to occur in a setting of situational permissiveness rather than situational restrictiveness. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between performance of an imitative response in subjects with either an internal control or external control orientation under conditions of model-reward or no model-reward. (Author)

This study was designed to evaluate sex differences in response to male speakers and compare alternative analysis techniques for assessing the integration rules, while employing a different stimulus presentation method from the latter studies. (Author)

One-hundred-and-sixty adolescents participated in two studies designed to investigate the relationship between I/E and helping behavior as mediated by the perceived cause of another's need. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study was to relate subjects' locus of control orientation to the degree of initial interpersonal attraction expressed toward a stranger who differed from the subjects only in degree of expressed locus of control orientation. (Author)