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McCann, Stewart J. H.; Hamilton, Marshall L. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
Hypothesized that dogmatism and attitude discrepancy-congruency would be interactively related to attitude change. Results suggest that supportive information may be more effective in polarizing opinions or attitudes of nondogmatic persons than dogmatic persons. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Congruence, Dogmatism
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Bearison, David J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
The relationship between the ability to coordinate social perspectives and levels of anxiety induced by the social context was studied. Results showed a relative failure to coordinate perspectives in the "anxious" compared with the "neutral" condition and were discussed in terms of social contextual effects on aspects of social cognitive…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Individual Differences
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Druckman, Daniel; Rozelle, Richard M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
The effects of several factors on willingness to take a counterattitudinal position in a forthcoming debate were investigated. Subjects were presented with the dilemma of either compromising their own position and thereby not forfeiting a competitive advantage in the debate or forfeiting a competitive advantage by not compromising their own…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Debate, Females
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Levine, John M.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
This study investigated how "correct" and "incorrect" dissenters from erroneous group consensus affect conformity on visual and opinion stimuli under normative and informational social pressure. Results are consistent with earlier data. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Conformity
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Allen, Bem P. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Experiments involving "desirability for a date" ratings of black and white stimulus persons who varied in attractiveness indicated white male and female subjects gave appreciable weight to race and attractiveness, but females gave race more weight than attractiveness, while attractiveness was given more weight than race by males. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Dating (Social), Interaction Process Analysis
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Fisher, Ronald J.; Andrews, John J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
A co-educational living-learning center for the arts was studied through participant observation and quantitative assessment. The results document the importance of full self-selection into a membership group and demonstrate the relationships between reference group identification, basic interests in personality, and social behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Group Dynamics, Group Experience, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)