Relationship of persuasive interaction to change of opinion in dyadic groups when the original opinions of participants are expressed privately and publicly.
This constitutes a replication of a former study by Cervin (see 33: 5903) attempting to determine the relationship between emotionality and persuasibility. The only aspect of the design altered was that herein Ss committed themselves publicly to opinions. Ss of both high or low emotionality were placed in pairs. They initially declared their opinion on a number of topics, discussed the question, then redeclared their opinion. The more highly emotional Ss tended to change their opinions more frequently than the lows when their opinions were made public. From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4GD31C. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)