Perceived Choice in Selecting Other Persons
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 2 (1) , 75-78
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727600200117
Abstract
An experiment was conducted to examine whether variables which have been found to affect perceived choice in decisional situations which were relatively asocial in nature would have similar effects in a decisional situation having direct implication for interaction with others. The procedure involved subjects making a decision about which of a set of possible partners they would like to work with on a subsequent task. Similar to evidence deriving from previous research on perceived choice in essentially asocial contexts, perceived choice was found to be greater when positive rather than negative options were available and when a moderately large number rather than a small number of options was available.Keywords
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