The effects of congruent and conflicting social and task feedback on the acquisition of an imitative response.

Lanzetta, John T.; Kanareff, Vera T.

doi:10.1037/h0043908

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“…A widely reported finding, one which comes as close to a firmly established law as anything in experimental social psychology, is that subjects positively reinforced in initial judgments will maintain their judgmental responses in social interaction, whereas negatively reinforced subjects will converge toward coacting observers (Kanareff & Lanzetta, 1960;Kelman, 1950;Lanzetta & Kanareff, 1961;Mausner, 1954;Rosenberg & Hall, 1958). Although this finding has been regularly reproduced in many settings, there are probably many instances in which subjects fail to show lawful relations between prior reinforcement and subsequent behavior in social interactions, although these have probably gone unreported.…”

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confidence: 83%

Field dependence and prior reinforcement as determinants of social interaction in judgment.

Mausner¹,

Graham²

1970

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Examined the relation of 1 situational manipulation and 2 measures of individual characteristics of the S, anxiety and field dependence, to behavior in a social interaction. 36 male high school Ss made judgments of rate of alternation of flickering light, 1st as ratings and then as absolute judgments. In the rating series each S was either positively or negatively reinforced and observed a fellow S receive a schedule of reinforcement opposite to his own. There were no main effects; neither the manipulation of prior reinforcement nor the measures of individual differences were associated with convergence by the S toward purportedly different judgments made by the fellow S. There was a significant interaction between prior reinforcement and field dependency. Field-dependent Ss responded in accordance with prior reinforcement; field-independent Ss did not. (29 ref.)

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Section: Choice Of Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 83%