Results suggest that some people ascribe traits more often and indicate "depends on the situation" less often than do others. Personality correlates of this tendency indicate that it is associated with poor psychological adjustment and an extreme response style. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is to explore this potential link between self-awareness conditions and the differential responses to various social influences that occur as a function of locus of control and field dependence. (Author)

Based on Zimbardo's (1970) theory of deindividuation and Duval and Wicklund's (1972) theory of "objective self-awareness" it was predicted that self-awareness would lead to a decrease in transgressive behavior. (Editor)

Observed subjects evidenced less tendency to attribute their failure to low ability than did nonobserved subjects and greater willingness to attribute failure to lack of effort. For a task intended to be of minimal relevance to subjects' identities, nonobserved subjects attributed failure to task difficulty. (Author)

Examines whether self-consciousness, a personality disposition, affects self-attributions and attempts to replicate the research findings of Duval and Wicklund (1973) that self-awareness affects self-attributions. (Author/RK)

Private self-consciousness consists of attending to one's thoughts, feelings, and motives. Public self-consciousness consists of attending to oneself as a social object. The effect of dispositional self-consciousness on the accuracy of self-reports was studied in research on aggression. (Editor)

The hypothesis that the "self" concept is active in memory was tested in a series of recognition experiments involving first- and third-person sentences under several instructional conditions. Results were interpreted as congruent with the notion that the "self" can be seen as a cognitive structure with both a memory component…

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…

As determined by their scores on Rotter's Locus of Control scale, internal and external subjects were exposed either to a high-, low-, or no fear message on the dangers of exposure to a sunlamp. (Editor/RK)

The effects upon women's self-evaluations of experiencing varying severity of failure in interpersonal competition against male vs. female opponents were explored. (Editor)

Two pilot investigations using college fraternity members present alternative viewpoint to Jones and Nisbett's proposal that negative relationship exists between familiarity with actor's behavioral history and tendency to attribute traits to him. Concludes that attribution of personality traits provides attributors information both veridical and…

Suggests we attend to aspects of our interpersonal environment that correspond to features of our personality. Subjects who weighted a particular dimension tended to think they possessed a personality trait corresponding to the dimension. Reasons for the individual difference hypothesis were given. (Author)

Tested efficiency of induced self-esteem in reducing various deficits caused by learned helplessness. Results indicated subjects who received induced self-esteem treatment showed significantly more deficit reversal. Results are discussed in relation to the usefulness of induced self-esteem as a form of treatment for helplessness depression.…

Examined the relationship between social interest, self-report measures of adjustment, and perceptions of others. Results of the three studies found that people with greater interest in others are less inclined to make extreme responses in judging themselves, others, and a wide variety of attitudinal issues. (Author/JAC)