Effects of Sex, Response Order, and Expertise in Conformity: A Dispositional Approach

In this research the effects of sex of both subject and confederate, response order, and perceived confederate expertise upon the establishment and maintenance of conformant responses were examined. The subjects' perceptions of the expertise level (high of low) of the confederate was insured by a ca...reful but unobtrusive manipulation. As predicted, sex effects proved minimal when examined across the levels of expertise. The expertise manipulation, affecting the subjects' perception of the quality of socially derived information, proved influential in training $(p<.001)$ , and continued to exert an influence even in the effective absence of the confederate $(p<.001)$ . Differences as a function of response order, affecting information quantity rather than quality, were significant in training $(p<.0001)$ , but disappeared with the removal of the confederate. The advantage of conceptualizing conformity as a difference in the degree to which perceptual or social modes of information-weighting are activated in arriving at a decision was discussed, with special emphasis upon variables affecting differences in information quality and quantity. Ausführliche Beschreibung Beschreibung ausblenden

1. Person:	Crano, William D.
Quelle:	in Sociometry : a journal of research in social psychology Vol. 33, No. 3 (1970), p. 239-252 Weitere Artikel
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Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	1970
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