Conformity, anticonformity, and independence: Their dimensionality and generality.

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Examined the dimensionality of responses of high school students to group pressure and its generality across procedures employing different kinds of social situations and experimental tasks. 2 group pressure procedures were based on the Asch situation (counting clicks and responding to attitude items), and 2 others involved questionnaires with fictitious average answers (estimating probabilities of events and responding to attitude items). Conformity, anticonformity, and independence responses on each of these 4 procedures were factor analyzed, separately for Ss unsuspicious (N = 43) about the deceptions employed in these devices and for suspicious Ss (N = 67). Conformity and anticonformity appeared to represent 1 bipolar dimension, and conformity and independence seemed to involve another bipolar dimension. These responses were not consistent across procedures; the devices functioned differently, particularly for unsuspicious Ss. (61 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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