A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)

Tests the hypotheses that persons who commit harmful acts do something altruistic after harm-doing because of guilt; and that persons who witness harm do something altruistic after witnessing harm to maintain their belief in a just world." (MB)

A study of sixty children in grades 1, 2 and 3 demonstrated that with an expectancy to perform the same task after observing the model, reward to a model increased spontaneous imitation. (Author)

Findings of two field studies of lower and middle class black and white school children contradict the contention that cross subcultural groups display proxemic behavior. (Author/KM)

This study tests the hypothesis that perceived freedom is a function of the probability that actors will behave in a line with their dispositions by varying the pattern of extrinsic rewards associated with the behavior alternatives. Subjects in both experiments are college students. (CM)

Children who were forbidden use of an attractive toy were later tempted with attractive prizes to falsify scores. Subjects who complied with the initial severe threat showed less resistence to temptation than control subjects. (JB)