Elucidates process-social structure controversy concerning relations of self to symbolic interactionism. Attempts to expound dimensions of symbolic interactionist perspective required for logically specifying and analyzing psychological, social, and situational conditions under which social structure and social process exert differential and…

Compared stage acting items of Snyder's Self-monitoring Scale with face-valid measure of social acting devised to measure ability to regulate one's self-presentation in everyday social situations. Results from 224 college students showed that the two measures had little in common, pointing to necessity of distinguishing between contingent and…

To examine the effects of one kind of cost on helping behavior, subjects were provided with an opportunity to help spontaneously in a nonemergency situation. Helping was more frequent in nonembarrassing conditions. Results support contentions that potential embarrassment deters helping in nonemergency situations. (Author/BEF)

This study examined the relationship between the severity of negative consequences of a blameworthy behavior and attribution of responsibility for that behavior. (Author)

To investigate the involvement of spatial and social density in the appreciation of humor, adolescents participated under conditions of high and low spatial density. High spatial density was found to significantly diminish appreciation of three humor types. Significant sex and age differences in reactivity to spatial density were also found.…

Basketball experts (N=28) responded to "rule- and norm-related behavior" questionnaire, assessing crisis relevance of behaviors which were against rules of situation and were either fair or unfair, called or not called by officials. Results revealed that officials' calls and fairness of violations substantially influenced diagnostic…

Examined the generalizability of the sociability aspect of extraversion-introversion dimension as measured by Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire (1975) in Israeli students (N=900). Results indicated that dissemblances between extraverts and introverts exist in the desire for company and in the overall desire to associate with strangers, where…

Tests effects of two interventions upon question-asking behavior. Both treatments decreased latency of asking the first question, but only specific instructions affected total number of bids for clarification. Women predisposed to be high in assertiveness were facilitated by any intervention. Shorter latencies were associated with more knowledge.…

Explored speaking-order and talking-time structures in dyads and triads to determine if these modes of paralanguage were hierarchial and used consistently in various settings. Findings indicated that paralanguage hierarchies emerged and that speaking-order and talking-time ranks correlated between groups. (Author)

This study was designed to test two alternative explanations for the foot-in-the-door phenomenon. It was found that the issue similarity variable had no effect on compliance. However, within the similar issue condition there was a cumulative effect of persuasive message and small request. (Author)

High and low socially anxious women were given identical feedback about their personality traits after a brief social interaction with a male confederate. The male confederate was trained to respond positively to half and negatively to half. High socially anxious subjects had more accurate memory for negative information about themselves. (Author)

Evaluated the assumption that social evaluations are infrequent in daily interactions. Undergraduates (N=39) self-observed five different hours of social interaction and reported an average of 2.6 evaluations per rated hour of interaction. An average of 61 percent were rated positive. Family members gave positive evaluations less frequently than…

Two experiments are reported: one in which presentation of external information about a stranger evoked significantly higher attraction ratings than available psychological information; and a second where similarity of Subject and Other on external characteristics had greater effects upon attraction scores than did similarity of psychological…

Examined the extent to which subjects disclosed positive and negative trait information to each of three friends in the course of their relationships. Self-disclosure and feedback grouped themselves as suggested by Leary's model of interpersonal behavior, indicating that relationships are characterized more by affiliative than by dominant…

Undergraduates, divided into three groups--high verbal-low spatial (HiV-LoS), intermediate, and a high spatial-low verbal group (HiS-LoV)-- ties test. For males at least, the groups differed significantly on certaintook Cattell's 16PF questionnaire and Thurston's Primary Mental Abili personality variables involving response to social stimuli.…