Anxiety arousing effects of inappropriate crowding.

Evaluated the anxiety arousing effects of inappropriate crowding in a dyadic experimental setting. 48 female undergraduates were presented 8 Make A Picture Story test settings, containing 2 doll figures accompanied by a brief narrative describing the situation. Ss rated the amount of dysphoria they believed the female figure would feel in each setting. Ss were run under either an inappropriately crowded or appropriately spaced seating arrangement. Results indicate that crowded Ss projected more anxiety in their ratings of the figures than did the uncrowded Ss, with the effects becoming more pronounced during the latter 1/2 of the experimental period. (22 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)