Ss were 101 introductory psychology students, 48 of whom were high scorers and 53 of whom were low scorers on an authoritarianism scale. A series of 24 separate stimulus cards of a semiprojective nature similar to the Rosenzweig pictures studied some of the interrelationships among authoritarianism, punitiveness, and status. The data indicate that low authoritarians respond to frustrators independently of their status. “ . . . punitiveness is a function of both the personality of the individual and the particular stimulus environment that elicits the behavior.” (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)