RESPONSES TO COGNITIVE INCONSISTENCIES - PERSONALITY DISCREPANCY LEVEL AND RESPONSE STABILITY

243 male undergraduates in 3 experimental treatments, differing in amount of discrepancy between Ss' own personality self-ratings and bogus ratings presented to them, responded differentially on 4 response measures: conformity, rejection, devaluation, and underrecall. High, moderate, and low groups on several personality attributes were compared on response scores. Differences in love-hostility scores were related to different response preferences, and classification according to Marlowe-Crowne scores interacted with the discrepancy-level treatments. Dogmatism, repression-sensitization, and dominance-submission were not related to the response variables. Stability of response was examined by reassessing the dependent measures after a wk. interval. Conformity and rejection decreased, devaluation remained stable, and underrecall increased over time. (32 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.