This paper reports on the replication and refinement of a technique for assessing the discrepancy between public social behaviors and private interaction proclivities. Generally, we replicated previous findings that this discrepancy predicts concurrent signs of maladjustment. The technique will prove valuable to those interested in the psychology of incongruence.
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