Abstract
Summary Premeasures of self-acceptance, acceptance of others, and a self-rating were obtained from 134 male students. After working with a confederate on a standard task, each received a favorable, a neutral, or an unfavorable rating from the confederate. A multivariate analysis of variance showed that persons high in self-acceptance reciprocated, rating a confederate lower after receiving his average or unfavorable evaluation. They agreed with a favorable evaluation and disagreed with an unfavorable one. Those low in self-acceptance not only started with a less favorable first rating of the confederate but decreased the favorability in their second rating consistently even after a favorable evaluation from the confederate. They agreed only slightly more with a favorable than with an unfavorable evaluation of themselves. Individual differences in response to evaluations were viewed from the perspectives of social exchange and dissonance theories. A control group showed no significant differences between t...
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