AFFILIATE PERCEPTION AND THE AROUSAL OF THE PARTICIPATION-AFFILIATION MOTIVE

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Eight hundred and twenty one undergraduates were asked to participate in either one of 2 fictitious experiments: Exp. A (a pain-tolerance test with others) or B (a pain-tolerance test alone). Ss received 1 of 4 forms each of which described a different prospective affiliate. The 4 descriptions included an affiliate who (a) was undergoing the same treatment (same state or SS), (b) had just completed the same treatment (other state-relevant or OS-REL), (c) knew nothing of the experiment (other state-irrelevant or OS-IRR), and (d) was a physiologist who would give S physiological feedback (information or INFO). Analysis revealed that (a) the SS and INFO conditions produced greater affiliation behavior than either of the 2 OS conditions, (b) affiliation behavior was more prominent among the females of the SS and INFO groups but not among those of the 2 OS groups, and (c) affiliation behavior did not interact with birth order in the pattern usually found in waiting-affiliation.

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