This study examined students at two different age levels to determine if those forced into having valid expectations tended to exhibit increased motivation and, by extention, improved performance. Motivation was determined by measuring both student performance and the time spent on the performance task. Eighty students from two grade levels (six…

Challenging Horner but following Berger and Luckmann, "female motive to avoid success" is interpreted as a normative response to social deviancy. Previous studies of this "motive" have analyzed male S's response to male success at activities typified for males but female S's response to female success at activities non-typified for females. This…

This study replicated the story completion part of the earlier research on fear of success by Horner, and introduced three variations in the cue used to measure fear of success, which was slightly more characteristic of honor students than others. (EK)

Subjects were 80 undergraduates, randomly assigned to conditions by sex. The design included three variables: sex, placebo, and motivation. The present hypothesis-- that given the level of motivation appropriate for the subject's sex, males and females would not differ in effects of a placebo--found support in the data. (Author)

Undergraduates (130 males, 112 females) completed the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and the S-R Inventory of General Trait Anxiousness (S-R GTA). The intercorrelations among the five scales from the SSS and the four scales from the S-R GTA were computed and compared. Findings were consistent with rational and theoretical notions. (Author)

Female subjects were randomly assigned to an n Power arousal group or control group. Analysis of TAT protocols revealed that n Power was aroused in women as successfully as the procedures had been with men. Subjects' self-ratings also demonstrated that subjects felt stronger in the experimental group. (NG)

This research examined whether the "will to manage" is diminishing by use of the instrumentality theory of motivation. Measures of outcome importance and the instrumentality of a managerial career in attaining the outcomes were determined. Results supported the hypothesis that the "will to manage" is declining. (Author)

Interrelationships between patterns of drug abuse and personality and motivation were determined for male and female subjects. Significant sex differences were found with respect to drug behavior. Females used amphetamines more frequently than males and also showed greater multiple drug use. (Author)

This paper focuses on Melvin Kohn's suggestive hypothesis that white-collar parents stress the development of internal standards of conduct in their children while blue-collar parents are more likely to react on the basis of the consequences of the child's behavior. This hypothesis was supported. (Author)

Picture stimuli depicting females and males working together were shown to college students by either a male or a female experimenter. Subjects' responses to the pictures were assessed using standard need achievement scoring. A significant interaction was obtained between sex of subject and sex of experimenter, such that higher need achievement…

This speech addressed itself to the variety of achievement motivations that can be critically different for men and women. The author, impressed by the different ways people cognitively define and experience a successful accomplishment, developed a taxonomy of psychological cues which people might use in defining their success. Six varieties of…

Freudian theory and subsequent research indicates a connection between sexual and aggressive motivation. The present study investigated preferences among nonsexual, sexual, and aggressive humor as a function of induced aggressive mood. One-hundred and twenty male and 120 female university students participated in one of four 2x2 factorial designs…

Previous equity research indicates that females more often than males prefer to divide rewards equally when their own work inputs are greater than that of their partner. In the present study, males and females divided rewards either between themselves and another person, or between two hypothetical members of a work dyad. Results showed that when…

This study examined, for 221 black and white male and female college students, relationships between the motive to avoid success and: (a) sex and race; (b) congruency, consistency, and differentiation of occupational choice; and (c) occupational aspirations. Results showed a significant sex difference on the motive to avoid success. (Author)

Of the 177 college students in Horner's original 1965 fear-of-success study, 158 were interviewed by mail. Measures of fear of success, achievement motivation, and postcollege experiences, particularly pregnancy, were obtained. The 1965 data measuring fear of success and achievement motivation were recoded for comparison with the 1974 data.…