Personality Variables and Sexual Status in Observer Performance

Four groups of 15 Ss each heard words recorded by a male or female model and intermittently said words of their own in response. 15 male and 15 female Ss were exposed to each model. All Ss took the MMPI, the EPFS, and a postural sway test. There was a significant increase in the critical response class, animal words, as the frequency of animal words spoken by the taped models increased ( p < .001). Male Ss gave significantly more imitative responses than did female Ss ( p < .001), but no reliable effect due to the sex of the model was found. Esssentially no interpretable correlations were obtained between the amount of verbal imitation exhibited and the personality variables measured

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