The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between quantity and quality of verbal interaction on the leadership process when the two variables are systematically varied in an unambiguous group situation. (Author)

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)

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 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…

In attempting to understand the complex effects of mutual eye contact, article examined some of the reasons one person would want to see another, regardless of whether the other can or would want to reciprocate the look. (Author/RK)

This study replicated the finding of Freedman and Dobb (1968) that deviants are more compliant than nondeviants in face-to-face situations, and expected that known deviants would comply more than secret deviants. In addition, the study was designed to assess the effects of expected future interaction on compliance. (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.…