Undergraduate education students (28 males, 104 females) were administered Fiedler's Least Preferred Co-worker Scale. Those who scored greater than = ½ SD from the mean were administered a modified version of Laurendeau and Pinard's Coordination of Perspectives Test, a measure of perception of viewpoints of others in respect to the arrangement of objects. That high scoring subjects perceive the viewpoints of others more accurately than low scoring subjects was supported.
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