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Peer reviewedHarton, Helen C.; Green, Laura R.; Jackson, Craig; Latane, Bibb – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Describes an in-class exercise using students' discussion of their answers on a multiple choice test to demonstrate the powerful effects and pervasiveness of social influence. After a brief multiple choice test, students discuss their answers with their neighbors and then answer again. Similar response patterns emerge among the participants. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Correlation, Demonstrations (Educational), Group Behavior
Download full textGibson, Dennis Lee; Dunnette, Marvin D. – 1971
A self-report inventory was compared with a situational test as a predictor of the verbal behavior of individual members of small interpersonal skills training groups. As hypothesized, the situational test was a better predictor than was the self-report inventory. A powerful social conformity effect may have operated in both the situational test…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, College Students
