Abstract
Summary The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of varying degrees of ego-involvement on the categorization process of Ss with positive and negative attitudes toward a controversial social issue—namely, the presence of Palestinian Commandos in Lebanon—with the use of the “own-categories” procedure. The Ss were 88 Lebanese male students at the American University of Beirut, classified into highly involved and less involved, pro- and anti-Commando Ss. Utilizing the own-categories procedure, the Ss categorized 46 statements expressing different opinions about Palestinian Commandos. The results showed that while neither attitude nor ego-involvement produced significant differences in the number of categories used, yet both of these variables were associated with significant differences in the size of the latitude of rejection. It was suggested that the relatively high degree of authoritarianism characterizing our Arab Ss was a possible cross-cultural variable affecting the results. However, i...
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