title: The Evaluation of Persons Seeking and Volunteering Information Under Cooperative and Competitive Conditions.
abstract: The evaluation of a person seeking or volunteering information in cooperatively or competitively oriented problem solving groups was investigated in 63 white and black, male and female, high school and college students. It was hypothesized that under cooperative conditions the seeking of information would be evaluated more positively than would the volunteering of information, while under competitive conditions the volunteering of information would be evaluated more positively than would the seeking of information. A highly trained confederate (C) engaged in either the seeking of information or the volunteering of information in four-person problem solving groups in which Ss were either cooperatively or competitively oriented. Ss rated Cs on eight bipolar scales. The results confirmed the hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: a University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: a University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Falk
authors.affiliation: a University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martino
authors.affiliation: a University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Purdie