Yielding, authoritarianism, and authoritarian ideology regarding groups.

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This investigation was prompted by Asch's (1952) discussion of the personal and social significance of yielding to group pressure. For the person, yielding requires the inhibition of overt and perhaps implicit responses to objective situational requirements. For the group, malignant processes may arise and develop, unchecked by those members in whom goals of personal security predominate over group goals. In the present study, the view was taken that both meanings of yielding are assigned positive value in two separate ideologies concerning the group-individual relation. One of these is termed “conformity” and the other is “rugged individualism.” In the study, group pressure was simulated by announcing bogus group judgments to small groups of Ss whose apparent task was to match one of three lines of variable length with a standard line. Questionnaires were used to measure variables, which were: the ideology of conformity (IC), the ideology of rugged individualism (RI), ethnocentrism (E), and authoritarianism (F). The questionnaires were administered to 91 college students, both day school and evening. It was found that the correlation with the F scale was .48 (P<.01), and the correlations of yielding with IC and RI were significantly lower than that with F (P<.05 in both cases). The correlation with the E scale was not significantly different from the correlation with F, the removal of cases required by this comparison causing the correlation with F to drop. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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