Subjects presented with scenarios in which they themselves are actors tend to believe that the predictions from affect control theory are the events that really would happen. A laboratory experiment demonstrates that the theory predicts subtle differences in observable behavior as subjects are confronted with different social circumstances.
The Journal of Mathematical Sociology
Volume 13, 1987 - Issue 1-2
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