Abstract
The purpose of the present paper was to investigate the effects of game behavior and selfesteem on person perception.
The main resulte were as follows:
(1) When subjects won against others in the game, subjects came to perceive them undesirable. The female subjects had the especially strong tendency.
(2) When subjects were defeated by others in the game, subjects' perception of them changed desirablly. But this fact could not be found in the female subjects of low self-esteem.
(3) Subjects' perception more changed in undesirable direction than in desirable direction.
(4) Subjects'perception was more changeable in the attributes related to the stimulus presented in the game situation.
