Relative competence, reinforcement and conformity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10901634
AutoresNorman S Endler (York University, autor correspondente), Susan Hartley, S HOWARD HARTLEY (0009-0008-1822-1406, York University)
Ano1973
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas63-72
Data de publicação1973-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0046-2772 • E-ISSN: 1099-0992
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ejsp.2420030105
OpenAlexW1982705390
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas10

Forty male inmates from an adult correctional training centre participated in a 2 × 2 factorial design with subject correctness‐incorrectness and group agreement‐disagreement constituting the classification factors. A modified Asch procedure was used to manipulate a S's prior experience of correctness and agreement (Part 1) and to assess subsequent conformity to 3 male confederates (Part 2). The female experimenter served as the source of reinforcement and group correctness. Ss responded to a (two part) 26 verbal and perceptual item scale, including 11 conformity items. Subject correctness and group agreement interacted, for perceptual items only, so that subjects who were more competent than the group or equally incompetent to the group conformed less than those who were less competent than the group, who in turn conformed less than those who were equally competent to the group, where both the subjects and the group were correct. Subjects conformed more to difficult verbal items than to perceptual items, and unsuspicious subjects conformed more than suspicious subjects. Both relative competence, mediating the effects of prior experience, and the situational factor of reinforcement affect conformity to perceptual tasks

Affect (linguistics) · Cognitive psychology · Competence (human resources) · Conformity · Correctness · Developmental psychology · Factorial analysis · Perception · Reinforcement · Situational ethics · Statistics · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Communication · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Psychology