Effects of a child's imitation versus nonimitation on adults' verbal and nonverbal positivity.

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In response to the need for more information about how children can affect their own social development through the effects they have on adults, the imitativeness of 2 13-yr-old male confederates in a basketball teaching situation was experimentally varied. The responses of 48 male undergraduates to this manipulation were measured on 21 verbal and nonverbal variables. The variables were factor analyzed, and an analysis of variance was done on the positivity factor scores. Ss who had been imitated by the child were significantly more positive in their factor scores than Ss who had not been imitated. There was also an interaction effect in which Ss who were instructed to explicitly ask the child to imitate were less positive when the child did so than were Ss who had simply modeled. Results with the positivity factor scores were also supported by separate analyses of variance on the 21 variables. (31 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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