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Attitudes serve an important self-defining function & are crucial to one's identity. The letters to the editor column allows writers to express almost any attitude while withholding information about their identity. 2 studies were conducted to determine whether a relationship exists between a persons' attitudinal stance & the tendency to disclose or conceal one's identity, & the extent to which identity withholding tendencies were present in letters to the editor during the Ohio State disturbances of 1970. The utility theory appears to be the best explanation: concealment is a practical way for a person to vent his hostility or express his fears while protecting himself from the social & personal repercussions his views might invite. 1 Table. S. Karganovic.

Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Person Perception in 1974. In subsequent meetings a mutual interest emerged in the development of cognitive information processing metaphors for human thought and their application to problems of social perception, memory and judgment. Within the context of modern research on social cognition, the most distinctive aspects of the authors' work was its empirical focus on how people cognitively represent people in memory, and its theoreti