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Abstract:
In a study of the effects that instructions have on self-disclosure, two groups of male and female college students (N = 120) were asked to select items for discussion with a same sexed stranger under one of two sets of instructions: (a) Ss were asked to select items that they were interested in discussing or (b) Ss selected items they were willing to discuss. Results indicated that changing one word from "interested" to "willing" produced significantly higher potential disclosures in all Ss from low to high disclosers.
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