Bibb Latane
Biographic Data
| ID | 92507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bibb Latane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bibb |
| FAMILY NAME | Latane |
| SIGNATURE | LATANE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 930 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Simulating the emergence of social order from individual behaviour
This chapter shows that computer simulations can model the change in attitudes in a population resulting from the interactive, reciprocal and recursive operation of Latané’s (1981) Theory of Social Impact. This theory specifies principles underlying how individuals are affected by their social environment, in particular, how individuals are affected by the strength, immediacy and number of people holding alternative or similar viewpoints. Several…
Maintaining Diversity: Simulating the Role of Nonlinearity and Discreteness in Dynamic Social Impact
Dynamic social impact theory (DSIT) uses Latané’s (1981) individual-level theory of social impact to explain and predict the emergence of group-level phenomena as consequences of social influence among interacting people. An extensive program of social simulation has resulted in numerous recent articles and chapters reporting the emergence of several group-level phenomena as very general consequences of social influence among spatially distribute…
The emergence of a social representation of human rights via interpersonal communication: Empirical evidence for the convergence of two theories
To test the common assumption that social representations originate in ordinary communication, ten 24-person groups of American college students exchanged messages for 2 1/2 weeks about six specific issues drawn from a 21-item questionnaire previously used by Clémence, Doise, & Lorenzi-Cioldi (1994) in a cross-cultural investigation on human rights. As expected, interpersonal communication led to increased spatial clustering (neighbors in social …
Extremitization of Attitudes: Does Thought- and Discussion-Induced Polarization Cumulate
A within-subjects experimental design with 240 college undergraduates revealed that the typical paradigms used to make attitudes more extreme in the laboratory (individual thought and group discussion) failed to produce cumulative change over time. Over the course of 4 sessions of thought and/or discussion spread over 2 weeks, attitude polarization for both political and personal issues was observed only from pretest to following Session 1 of ind…
Population and political participation: A social impact analysis of voter responsibility
The emergence of a social representation of human rights via interpersonal communication: Empirical Evidence for the Convergence of Two Theories
To test the common assumption that social representations originate in ordinary communication, ten 24-person groups of American college students exchanged messages for 2 1/2 weeks about six specific issues drawn from a 21-item questionnaire previously used by Clémence, Doise, & Lorenzi-Cioldi (1994) in a cross-cultural investigation on human rights. As expected, interpersonal communication led to increased spatial clustering (neighbors in social …
Demonstrating Dynamic Social Impact: Consolidation, Clustering, Correlation, and (Sometimes) the Correct Answer
This demonstration illustrates principles of group dynamics and dynamic social impact and can be used in classes in social psychology or group dynamics. Students discuss their answers to multiple-choice questions with neighbors and answer them again. Discussion consistently leads to the consolidation (reduced diversity), clustering (spatial-self-organization), correlation (emergent linkages), and continuing diversity of responses. “Truth” does no…
The Catastrophic Link Between the Importance and Extremity of Political Attitudes
Social Influence and Adolescent Lifestyle Attitudes
In a 2-year panel study, children's and adolescents' (aged 9—15 years) approval of both healthy and deviant mature lifestyle attitudes such as holding afterschool jobs, smoking, and dating increased linearly with grade for both boys and girls. Boys approved of these activities more than did girls; however, girls' approval increased more rapidly. By eighth grade, gender differences in attitudes had almost vanished. Relative liking and respect for …
Spatial clustering in the conformity game: Dynamic social impact in electronic groups.
Experimental Evidence for Dynamic Social Impact: The Emergence of Subcultures in Electronic Groups
Bibb Latané, Martin J. Bourgeois; Experimental Evidence for Dynamic Social Impact: The Emergence of Subcultures in Electronic Groups, Journal of Communication
Social Representations as Dynamic Social Impact
Pascal Huguet, Bibb Latané; Social Representations as Dynamic Social Impact, Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 4, 1 December 1996, Pages 57–63, ht
The Intersubjective Geometry of Social Space
Bibb Latané, James H. Liu; The Intersubjective Geometry of Social Space, Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 4, 1 December 1996, Pages 26–34, https
Simulating the Social Context of Human Choice
Dynamic Social Impact
Dynamic Social Impact: The Creation of Culture by Communication
Journal Article Dynamic Social Impact: The Creation of Culture by Communication Get access Bibb Latané Bibb Latané 1Bibb Latané is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 46, Issue 4, December 1996, Pages 13–25, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01501.x Published: 07 February 2006
Spatial clustering in the conformity game: Dynamic social impact in electronic groups
Motivated by bonuses for agreeing with the majority of their 24-person group, 192 participants in a study of electronic communication sent and received messages from their neighbors in each of 4 spatial configurations over 4 rounds of asynchronous communication. Analyses of the 48 resulting cases showed that over time opinions reorganized themselves so that most people thought they were in the majority, even though substantial numbers of them wer…
Dynamic Social Impact and the Evolution of Social Representations: A Natural History of Stereotypes
It should be evident by now that, like cells and organisms, populations are kept together and integrated by systems of communication. (MacArthur & Connell, 1766, p. 119
A Cognitive-Social Theory of Public Opinion: Dynamic Social Impact and Cognitive Structure
Journal Article A Cognitive-Social Theory of Public Opinion: Dynamic Social Impact and Cognitive Structure Get access Howard Lavine, Howard Lavine 1Howard Lavine is assistant professor of psychology at Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bibb Latané Bibb Latané 2Bibb Lataná is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Distance Matters: Physical Space and Social Impact
Studies of college students and citizens of south Florida, United States, students in Shanghai, China, and an international sample of social psychologists show that social influence, measured by the frequency of memorable interactions, is heavily determined by distance. In all three cases, although there was a great deal of interaction with distant persons, the relationship between distance and interaction frequency was well described by an inver…
Measuring emergent social phenomena: Dynamism, polarization, and clustering as order parameters of social systems
We derive three system order parameters: dynamism, polarization, and clustering, to describe global states of attitude distribution and change for human social systems. Dynamism (f) captures the rate of change in a system, while polarization (Pt) refers to the increase or decrease of a minority position over time. Clustering (e) defines the spatial segregation of opinion based on system topography. These measures suggest a conception of human sys…
From private attitude to public opinion: A dynamic theory of social impact
A computer simulation modeled the change of attitudes in a population resulting from the interactive, reciprocal, and reeursive operation of Latan~'s (198 I) theory of social impact, which specifies principles underlying how individuals are affected by their social environment. Surprisingly, several macrolevel phenomena emerged from the simple operation of this microlevei theory, including an incomplete polarization of opinions reaching a stable …
Social Loafing on an Optimizing Task: Cross-Cultural Differences among Chinese and Americans
Research conducted in the United States and in several non-Western societies has found that people exert greater effort when they work individually than when they do so in a group that obscures identifiability of members' individual outputs, a phenomenon termed "social loafing." It was argued that the apparent transcultural generality of social loafing may be limited to tasks that participants perceive as undiagnostic with respect to the competen…
Social dilemmas exist in space
Majority and minority influences on restaurant preferences
Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility
Ss overheard an epileptic seizure. They believed either that they alone heard the emergency, or that 1 or 4 unseen others were also present. As predicted the presence of other bystanders reduced the individual's feelings of personal responsibility and lowered his speed of reporting (p < .01). In groups of size 3, males reported no faster than females, and females reported no slower when the 1 other bystander was a male rather than a female. In ge…
From private attitude to public opinion: A dynamic theory of social impact
A computer simulation modeled the change of attitudes in a population resulting from the interactive, reciprocal, and reeursive operation of Latan~'s (198 I) theory of social impact, which specifies principles underlying how individuals are affected by their social environment. Surprisingly, several macrolevel phenomena emerged from the simple operation of this microlevei theory, including an incomplete polarization of opinions reaching a stable …
The social impact of majorities and minorities
Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies
Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing
Two experiments found that when asked to perform the physically exerting tasks of clapping and shouting, people exhibit a sizable decrease in individual effort when performing in groups as compared to when they perform alone. This decrease, which we call social loafing, is in addition to losses due to faulty coordination of group efforts. Social loafing is discussed in terms of its experimental generality and theoretical importance. The widesprea…
Distance Matters: Physical Space and Social Impact
Studies of college students and citizens of south Florida, United States, students in Shanghai, China, and an international sample of social psychologists show that social influence, measured by the frequency of memorable interactions, is heavily determined by distance. In all three cases, although there was a great deal of interaction with distant persons, the relationship between distance and interaction frequency was well described by an inver…
Identifiability as a deterrant to social loafing: Two cheering experiments
A lady in distress: Inhibiting effects of friends and strangers on bystander intervention
Measuring emergent social phenomena: Dynamism, polarization, and clustering as order parameters of social systems
We derive three system order parameters: dynamism, polarization, and clustering, to describe global states of attitude distribution and change for human social systems. Dynamism (f) captures the rate of change in a system, while polarization (Pt) refers to the increase or decrease of a minority position over time. Clustering (e) defines the spatial segregation of opinion based on system topography. These measures suggest a conception of human sys…
Ten years of research on group size and helping
In the decade following Latane and Darley's publication of the discovery that the presence of other people inhibits an individual from intervening in an emergency, numerous researchers have attempted to replicate this finding, extend its range of applicability, and determine what boundary conditions limit it. In the present article, we review both published and unpublished research, with special attention to the nature of the precipitating incide…
The Catastrophic Link Between the Importance and Extremity of Political Attitudes
Sex, Group Size and Helping in Three Cities
One hundred forty-five experimenters accidentally dropped a handful of pencils or coins on 1,497 occasions before a total of 4,813 bystanders in elevators in Columbus, Ohio; Seattle, Washington; and Atlanta, Georgia. In picking up the objects, females received more help than did males, males gave more help than did females, and these differences were greatly exaggerated in Atlanta. Both males and females were less likely to help as the number of …
Studies in social comparison—Introduction and overview
Choice of strategy and voluntary exposure to information under public and private conditions1
Emotionality and reactions to disaster
Gregariousness and fear in laboratory rats
Shared stress and interpersonal attraction
Dynamic Social Impact and the Evolution of Social Representations: A Natural History of Stereotypes
It should be evident by now that, like cells and organisms, populations are kept together and integrated by systems of communication. (MacArthur & Connell, 1766, p. 119
A Cognitive-Social Theory of Public Opinion: Dynamic Social Impact and Cognitive Structure
Journal Article A Cognitive-Social Theory of Public Opinion: Dynamic Social Impact and Cognitive Structure Get access Howard Lavine, Howard Lavine 1Howard Lavine is assistant professor of psychology at Northern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bibb Latané Bibb Latané 2Bibb Lataná is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Social and nonsocial attraction in rats
All alone in front of all those people: Stage fright as a function of number and type of co-performers and audience
Social loafing: Allocating effort or taking it easy
Social Loafing in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Chinese on Taiwan
Research conducted in the United States indicates that people exert greater effort in a variety of task situations when they perform individually than when they do so in a group that obscures identifiability of members' individual outputs, a phenomenon termed "social loafing." It was hypothesized that members of cultures whose value emphases and social institutions have been characterized as "group-oriented" would tend to form more cohesive group…
Extremitization of Attitudes: Does Thought- and Discussion-Induced Polarization Cumulate
A within-subjects experimental design with 240 college undergraduates revealed that the typical paradigms used to make attitudes more extreme in the laboratory (individual thought and group discussion) failed to produce cumulative change over time. Over the course of 4 sessions of thought and/or discussion spread over 2 weeks, attitude polarization for both political and personal issues was observed only from pretest to following Session 1 of ind…
Social Loafing on an Optimizing Task: Cross-Cultural Differences among Chinese and Americans
Research conducted in the United States and in several non-Western societies has found that people exert greater effort when they work individually than when they do so in a group that obscures identifiability of members' individual outputs, a phenomenon termed "social loafing." It was argued that the apparent transcultural generality of social loafing may be limited to tasks that participants perceive as undiagnostic with respect to the competen…
Choice of strategy and voluntary exposure to information under public and private conditions1
Studies in social comparison—Introduction and overview
Emotionality and reactions to disaster
Shared stress and interpersonal attraction
Social and nonsocial attraction in rats
Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies
Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility
Ss overheard an epileptic seizure. They believed either that they alone heard the emergency, or that 1 or 4 unseen others were also present. As predicted the presence of other bystanders reduced the individual's feelings of personal responsibility and lowered his speed of reporting (p < .01). In groups of size 3, males reported no faster than females, and females reported no slower when the 1 other bystander was a male rather than a female. In ge…
Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine on the Social and Emotional Behavior of the Rat
Gregariousness in rats as a function of familiarity of environment
Gregariousness and fear in laboratory rats
A lady in distress: Inhibiting effects of friends and strangers on bystander intervention
The Unresponsive Bystander: Why Doesn't He Help
Interaction motivates attraction: Rats are fond of fondling
Sex and sociability in rats
Sex, Group Size and Helping in Three Cities
One hundred forty-five experimenters accidentally dropped a handful of pencils or coins on 1,497 occasions before a total of 4,813 bystanders in elevators in Columbus, Ohio; Seattle, Washington; and Atlanta, Georgia. In picking up the objects, females received more help than did males, males gave more help than did females, and these differences were greatly exaggerated in Atlanta. Both males and females were less likely to help as the number of …
Politicians on TV: The Image Is the Message
Potential political candidates gave live, televised, audio, or written presentations to individuals and groups under laboratory conditions. The more live and rich the medium, the more favorably the communicator was evaluated; but media were equally effective in generating agreement with the candidate's message. Groups judged candidates more favorably than individuals, but individuals showed more attitude change. The results provide mixed support …
Regulation of social contact in laboratory rats: Time, not distance
Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing
Two experiments found that when asked to perform the physically exerting tasks of clapping and shouting, people exhibit a sizable decrease in individual effort when performing in groups as compared to when they perform alone. This decrease, which we call social loafing, is in addition to losses due to faulty coordination of group efforts. Social loafing is discussed in terms of its experimental generality and theoretical importance. The widesprea…
Social loafing: Allocating effort or taking it easy
The psychology of social impact
The author proposes a theory of social im- pact specifying the effect of other persons on an in- dividual. According to the theory, when other people are the source of impact and the individual is the target, impact should be a multiplicative function of the strength, immediacy, and number of other people. Fur- thermore, impact should take the form of a power func- tion, with the marginal effect of the Nth other person being less than that of the…
The social impact of majorities and minorities
Identifiability as a deterrant to social loafing: Two cheering experiments
All alone in front of all those people: Stage fright as a function of number and type of co-performers and audience
Ten years of research on group size and helping
In the decade following Latane and Darley's publication of the discovery that the presence of other people inhibits an individual from intervening in an emergency, numerous researchers have attempted to replicate this finding, extend its range of applicability, and determine what boundary conditions limit it. In the present article, we review both published and unpublished research, with special attention to the nature of the precipitating incide…
Majority and minority influences on restaurant preferences
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