Citation

Argote LM, Fisher JE, McDonald PJ, O'Neal EC. Sex Roles 1976; 2(3): 295-303.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00287657

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Male and female undergraduates performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed in competition with either a male or female partner who subsequently either accepted or rejected them. Subjects who were rejected by a male partner following success or accepted following failure performed less well on a subsequent anagram task than did those who were accepted following success or rejected following failure. These results suggest the importance of situational factors as determinants of "fear of success" behavior.