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Peer reviewedLamm, Helmut; Myers, David G. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Social-emotional and rational-cognitive explanations of group risky shift on choice dilemmas (hypothetical life situations) were evaluated by comparing shift in groups of low Mach (emotional) and high Mach (non-emotional) subjects. Effects of Machiavellian beliefs on social functioning are examined. Group composition was not observed to affect…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Group Behavior, Personality Theories, Research Projects
Peer reviewedKanekar, Suresh; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
Female college students were selected on the basis of their scores on the Manifest Anxiety Scale. The subjects worked either alone or in pairs. The experiment had a two x two x two design, with group type (nominal versus real), manifest anxiety (low versus high), and induces stress (low versus high) as the three variables. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Females, Group Behavior
