SOCIAL DESIRABILITY, MANIFEST ANXIETY, AND SOCIAL POWER.

The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between the interpretations given for the stochastic analysis of the asymmetrical game and paper-and-pencil personality tests. The experiment is a simple three-group design which varies the degree of cooperativeness of a "dummy." Thirty subjects for the study (Ss), 20 males, and 10 females from the introductory psychology classes at the University of Miami were randomly assigned to three conditions of the experiment. The most significant finding of the study was the lack of relationship between the cooperative strategy choices of Ss when weak and their strategy selections while powerful. Apparently, the roles have sufficiently different meaning to individuals that they call for different behaviors. It is clear that Ss did not act consistently in the two roles and that the cooperative behavior of persons in each role must he analyzed separately. A two-trial stochastic analysis of the behavior allows a more finely grained interpretation which intuitively can he related to personality dispositions. It was found that Ss who were accommodating in the weak role were also trustworthy in the powerful role.