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)

This study focused on the cognitive abstractness or concreteness of a subject, the level of cognitive complexity reflecting the ways in which a person receives, stores, and transmits information. (Author/RK)

Two experiments to determine the effect of competence upon aiding behavior are described. (DB)

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)

The first study in this article attempted to provide an empirical assessment of the validity of the other-self and self-ideal indices as measures of value strength, while the second study evaluated the assumptions that item-specific values underlie the choice shift, with an across-people (group-composition) design. (Author/RK)

The present experiment tested the prediction made in a number of arguments presented in this article that a consensus-breaking partner will produce greater reduction in conformity than a consensus-preempting partner. (Author/RK)

A communication that contains a particularly strong intent to influence can easily lose persuasive impact or even bring about a "boomerang" effect. Such "boomerang" phenomena have often been attributed to "psychological reactance," a motivational state created when freedoms are threatened or usurped. Two factors that inhibited reactance were…

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)