Influence of an Anonymous Stranger on a Routine Decision to Act or Not to Act
An Experiment in Conformity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2275677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lionel I Dannick (Cazenovia College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-134 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1973.tb02119.x |
| OpenAlex | W2011282645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of law-adhering and law-violating contexts on subject-behavior in a potentially law-violating situation in which the probability of negative sanctions was slight. Observations were made on subjects who had to make a decision either to violate or to adhere to a “Don't-Walk” signal at the intersection with sparse traffic. The three specific conditions included the control-condition in which no model was present and the experimental conditions in which an anonymous male stranger, the experimenter's confederate, acted either as a law-adhering model or as a law-violating model. The presence of a law-adhering model significantly increases the rate of pedestrian-adherence to a minor legal restriction on the part of both males and females. After the ceiling effects arising from the design of the experiment were factored out, the results showed that a law-violating model has greater influence on subject-behavior than the law-adhering model does. In both the law-adhering and the law-violatin contexts, the model influences the behavior of females slightly more than he does the behavior of males
Conformity · Intersection (aeronautics) · Political science · Sanctions · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology · Traffic and Road Safety
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 1976 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |