Results indicate that there is no simple relationship between type of observer present and children's aggressive responding following exposure to an aggressive model. (Authors)

Indicates that a feeling of control over the environment affects the subject's response to aversive stimuli. This finding helps to reconcile those of other experimenters in the area. (RW)

In order to explore the hypothesis that sex-linked biases in causal attributions, widely shared by female and male perceivers, may derive in part from the perceiver's naive sex-linked expectations regarding the potential impact of causal forces on women's and men's behavior, three experiments were carried out. The first experiment was conducted to…

These studies focused on sex differences and were designed to test the hypothesis that girls were more likely to be immobilized by a fear stimulus than boys. (Authors/CB)

Provides evidence that subjects who have experienced deception in experiments exhibit altered behavior and/or attitudes in subsequent experiments. Bibliography, tables, and graph. (RW)