Small groups of college Ss were placed in a 1-way vision observation room; the instructions structured the situation so that personal anxiety was presumed to be high. Other groups were purposefully not exposed to anxiety-producing instructions. Level of anxiety was measured by self-rating scales; need for affiliation was assessed through TAT cards. It was assumed that degree of anxiety would be positively related to degree of need affiliation. Ss high in need affiliation did rate themselves higher in anxiety when placed in the anxiety-producing situation; in the non-anxiety-producing situation, affiliation need was unrelated to anxiety. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)