Hypothesizes that stimulus exposure with consistency and redundancy enhances favorability, while exposure with inconsistency and change lowers favorability. The overall frequency effect suggests that inconsistent and changing contiguous associates impair, not reverse, the exposure-favorability relationship. (MB)

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)

This article presents a general purpose taxonomy of verbal response modes and explains how three dimensions of interpersonal roles-attentiveness, acquiescence, and presumptiousness can be derived from it. (MP)

Results of this study indicated that attitude conditioning increased with age and that the increase appeared to be a function of contingency awareness and perhaps also a function of the older subjects' having greater facility in transferring symbolic meaning. (Author)

Nursery school children were shown films to vicariously condition either fear or positive emotional responses in them. The children showed a higher rate of responding to the positive stimulus. (Author/KM)

Tests the proposition that both foreseen and foreseeable consequences can lead to the arousal of cognitive dissonance, and predicts that self-justificatory attitude change would occur in the foreseen conditions, regardless of whether subsequent information about the occurrence of the consequence was ever given. Subjects were 60 undergraduate…

Illustrates a general strategy for detecting motives that people wish to conceal. Subjects were college students. (MP)

Examined the influence of sexual arousal positive affect and negative affect on the aggressive behavior of male college students. (CM)