Extremity shifts, risk shifts and attitude shifts after group discussion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7535904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clark Mccauley (0000-0001-8937-302X, Bryn Mawr College, corresponding author), Clark R Mccauley |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 417-436 |
| Publication date | 1972-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0046-2772 • E-ISSN: 1099-0992 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ejsp.2420020406 |
| OpenAlex | W2009166420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 11 |
Moscovici and Zavalloni (1969) suggest that both risk shifts and attitude shifts after group discussion are examples of a general group tendency to polarize opinions. In the present experiment, using both attitude and risk items, group discussion did not make individual opinions more extreme; only the group average became more extreme. This group extremity increase was not simply a more general way of conceptualizing the directional shifts in attitude and risk; group extremity increase appeared to be an effect of discussion that was independent of the risk and attitude shifts. Also, subjects in the co‐working pretest of the standard risk‐shift paradigm were found to be less extreme and more ‘agreeing’ than pretest subjects who were truly alone. This co‐working/alone difference persisted after discussion and was not related to group extremity increase. On both attitude and risk items, group extremity increase was strongly correlated with group opinion convergence. It is argued from this correlation that group extremity increase may be an effect of some aspect of conformity influence
Conformity · Convergence (economics · Group (periodic table · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Dissensions et consensus
The group polarization phenomenon
Group Influences on Probability Judgments concerning Social and Political Change
Polarization and moderation of person perception judgements as a function of group interaction style
Polarization as a function of meaning and consequences
Another Look at the Conformity Explanation of Group-Induced Shifts in Choice
Psychology out of the laboratory
Images and Policy Preferences
The effects of discussion on group and individual choices among bets
Cooperation in an Objective Conflict of Interest? Testing Two Psychological Approaches
Public Engagement for Informing Science and Technology Policy
Discussion Effects on Racial Attitudes
Distribution of initial risk levels and group decisions involving risk
Risky and cautious shifts in group decisions
Components of group risk taking
Information versus conformity in the effects of group discussion on risk taking
An apparent exception to the extremization of collective judgments
Enhancement of dominant attitudes in group discussion
The relationship between riskiness and confidence in choice dilemma decisions
Intergroup relations and polarization of individual and collective judgments
The group as a polarizer of attitudes
Attitude Content-Intensity and Probability Expectations
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2011 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |