Effects of Experimenter Awareness and Sex of Subject and Experimenter on Reactions to Dependency Relationship

Previous experimental research has demonstrated that college students become motivated to help a peer who needs their assistance even though (a) they themselves will gain no tangible benefits through their effort, and (b) the peer, someone they probably will not meet again, will not find out about their work in his behalf for several months. The present study was conducted primarily to determine whether the immediacy with which the experimenter...