ATTRIBUTION OF HOSTILITY TO SELF AND OTHERS BY EXPRESSORS, SENSITIZERS, AND REPRESSORS.

This paper relates three patterns of ego control to the perception of hostility. "Expressors" are defined as people who respond directly to stimulation or threat, who are underinhibited, with a tendency to express impulses openly and with little anxiety or guilt. "Sensitizers" are defined as people who tend to be alerted to potential threat and conflict, to respond more readily with manifest anxiety, and to use intellectual and obsessive defenses. This paper summarizes two experiments in which there was more control over degree of acquaintance, the kind of person described and the interpersonal situation than was possible in that field study.