STOOGES CREATED AN ORDER-EFFECT PARADIGM BY MAKING COOPERATIVE AND THEN COMPETITIVE, OR COMPETITIVE AND THEN COOPERATIVE CHOICES IN A MODIFIED PRISONER'S DILEMMA GAME WHICH THEY PLAYED WITH 160 UNDERGRADUATES. IN CONTRAST TO A NUMBER OF EARLIER STUDIES WHICH INVOLVED DESCRIPTIONS OF OTHER PERSONS, THE 2 STUDIES REPORTED HERE INVOLVED FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION WITH OTHER PERSONS AND SHOWED A RECENCY RATHER THAN A PRIMACY EFFECT IN PERSONALITY IMPRESSION FORMATION. THE DATA DID NOT SUPPORT THE N. MILLER AND D. T. CAMPBELL (SEE 34:3) MODEL OF ORDER EFFECTS. CONTRARY TO A SET OR STIMULUS VARIATION INTERPRETATION, A PRERATING REDUCED (NONSIGNIFICANTLY) RATHER THAN INCREASED THE RECENCY EFFECT. (18 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)