11 6 Book Reviews

cognition and motivation, and theoretically derived views of Ss’ roles: negativistic S, faithful S, good S, and apprehensive S), and (3) present control techniques for reducing these interfering variables in psychological experimentation.

BIELEFELDER SYMPOSIUM UBER A n R I B U T I O N , edited by D. Gorlitz, W.-U. Meyer and B. Weiner. Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1978. No. of pages: 280.

This volume contains papers that were presented at a conference on ‘Attribution’ held in 1977 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld. They are presented in four sections: 1. History and scope of attribution theory; 2. Attribution of success and failure; 3. Attribution and the affective domain; and 4. Methodological problems and the social sciences. Among the contributors are Fritz Heider, the founder of attribution theory; H. H. Kelley; K. Gergen, Bernard, Weiner; H. Heckhausen, F.-E. Weinert; W.-U. Meyer; E. Liebhart; M. Hofer and M. Dobrick; S. and S. Streufert; and W. Stroebe.

KURSUS DER SOZIALPSYCHOLOGIE, edited by M. Me. Darmstadt und Neuwied, Luchterhand, 1978. No. of pages: 624.

This book is a reader in social psychology; the student should have studied an introduction before. This reader can be studied independently of a graduate textbook or can accompany such a textbook. Under each heading: social judgment, social motivation, socialization, social attitudes, social interactions, and applications of social psychological research, four selected reports (24 altogether) of empirical research are offered. The majority of reports are selected from research of (former) co-workers of the editor. The editor introduces all sections by original contributions and combines the single reports into interpretative comments. To foreigners this book may serve as an introduction to experimental research in social psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany, though biased by the selection of the editor.

SYMPATHIE, FREUNDSCHAFT UND EHE: PSYCHOLOGISCHE GRUNDLAGEN ZWISCHENMENSCHLICHER BEZIEHUNGEN, edited by G. Mikula and W. Stroebe. Bern, Huber, 1977. No. of pages: 256.

The eight contributions to this book by attraction researchers from Europe as well as from the United States of America, review and integrate the major theoretical and empirical perspectives in the area of interpersonal attraction. They emphasize the development of attraction in specific relationships and differences in the bases of rewards at different stages during this development. After a brief survey of the field the following topics are discussed: reinforcement models of attraction, equity in intimate relationships, need complementarity, personality similarity. stage theories of relationship development and \tatus-related differences in marital interaction. The book should be useful to