Two experiments were conducted in which same-sex pairs of subjects who were either similar or opposite in self-monitoring conversed for 10 minutes. Conversations were videotaped, and the patterning of speech and gaze was examined. (Author/SS)

In order to reduce the negative effects on performance of low self-esteem subjects' (SEs) self-focused attention, an attempt was made to change the nature of the low SEs' self-focusing, rather than reduce their self-focusing, by providing them with success feedback from a previous task. Subjects were 60 female and 30 male undergraduate students.…

Rotter's social learning theory is applied to the learned helplessness paradigm, and is used to analyze (1) expectancy change processes occurring during helplessness training and (2) the generalization of those changes to other situations. Literature on individual and situational differences is also reviewed. (Author/SS)

Investigates the hypothesis that high self-monitoring individuals are particularly knowledgeable about others who are prototypes of a wide variety of trait domains and that low self-monitoring individuals are particularly knowledgeable about their own characteristic traits, attitudes and dispositions. (Author/SS)

Investigates the relationship between causal attributions and responses to social rejection across popularity levels, focusing on individual differences along each dimension. (Author/SS)

Examines personality differences among college students manifesting varying degrees of anger arousal as measured by the California Psychological Inventory and the Anger Inventory. (Author/SS)

This study was conducted to determine how individual differences in sex role orientation, as assessed by the Bem Sex Role Inventory, were related to subjects' display of a number of nonverbal behaviors indicative of "masculinity" and "femininity," respectively. Subjects were 72 college students. (Author/MP)

Relations between personality and happiness were examined in three studies. It was argued that (a) different sets of traits influence type of affect and of satisfaction; (b) extraversion and neuroticism influence type of affect and of satisfaction; and (c) personality differences antedate and predict differences in happiness over a 10-year period.…