ANXIETY, EIRTH ORDER, AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SOCIAL INFLUENCE.

The article examines the responses of first-born and later-born female undergraduates in the autokinetic situation as an index of susceptibility to social influence. First-born subjects under the anxiety arousing condition are more suggestible than first-born subjects under the nonanxiety arousing condition. Later-born students seem to be unaffected by the anxiety condition. There is no significant difference between later-born subjects under the anxiety condition and those under the nonanxiety condition.