Sixty subjects scoring high or low on a belief-in-afterlife (BA) scale were exposed to a death threat, shock threat, or control treatment. Only the high believers exposed to death threat showed an increase in score on an alternate BA scale; the scores of the other five groups remained unchanged. The results could not be attributed to anxiety alone, since self-ratings on anxiety did not differ between the death threat and the shock threat groups, although they were higher for these groups than for the control groups. The results were interpreted as confirming the hypothesis that strong BA may serve to deal with death anxiety.

Repeated presentations were made of a paired-associate list, with the stimulus and response member of each pair exposed simultaneously. Each pair was presented for a total of 20 or 40 sec., with an exposure time per trial of 2, 5, 10, 20, or 40 sec. Results of a recall test indicated that amount learned varied directly with total exposure time, but that, contrary to Bugelski's total-time hypothesis, more was learned with shorter, than longer, exposures per trial at each total exposure time.

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The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of early or later exposure to an audience on tennis pupils' performance. 16 pairs of players from a day tennis camp were observed with and without an audience, and their performance was related to their stage of development. An audience generally improved performance in more skilled pupils and impaired it in less skilled pupils.

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