Discussion Patterns of Homogeneous Groups of Repressers and Sensitizers following Success and Failure

Abstract

Homogeneous groups of repressers and sensitizers were exposed to success, neutral and failure evaluations of past performance. They were then asked to perform two tasks, one work-oriented and the other interpersonally oriented. It was hypothesized that in the latter task, sensitizer groups would manifest more negative affect in verbal interaction than represser groups. The hypothesis was not supported although there were mild trends in the predicted direction.