This came out particularly in the peer situation where they
were receiving peer criticism. This was a most difficult time for many of the subjects when they had
one or two or three of these express self calculatingly/rationally in the group.
1.
The express self calculatingly/rationally guy would try
and take over the show and try to tell the
other guy what his conception was and try to run it for him.
2.
He would sit there and watch and actually come out many times
and say; “Well, I’m learning how to handle you. I see what your weaknesses are now.” And then he’d
begin to work on this guy. He’d just sit there waiting for this other person to show some kind of weakness
that would enable him to get an advantage.
So . . . here is a pretty conflictual set of data.
This conflictual data, however, started to make sense when the change
data was combined with the freedom to behavior in a novel situation. Now, if one
hypothesized that adult man moved from fewer degrees of freedom to more degrees of behavioral freedom - - - he had
dictated to him, the hierarchy, – sacrifice now to get later, – to express self calculatingly/rationally for what the
self desires without shame or guilt, – to sacrifice now to get now, - to express self but not at the expense of others,
to possibly adjust self to existential realities. But, this was still the germinal stage of an idea. It was necessary to
explore further.