The relationship between yielding, submissiveness, and the disclosure of personal identity

Mouton, Jane Srygley; Blake, Robert R.; Olmstead, Joseph A.

doi:10.1037/e488572008-006

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“…In Duval and Wicklund's view, this indicated that self-focus promotes conformity. They argued that their findings were consistent with a long line of research (Argyle, 1957;Asch, 1951;Deutsch & Gerard, 1955;Mouton, Blake, & Olmstead, 1956;Raven, 1959) which showed that conformity to a bogus consensus is maximized when the behavior occurs in public rather than private circumstances. They argued, in effect, that the public display of one's actions promotes self-attention.…”

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confidence: 71%

Attention and Self-Regulation

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Scheier²

1981

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Preface "Seek simplicity and distrust it." Alfred North Whitehead "It will become all too clear that an ability to see patterns in behavior, an ability that some might feel proud of, can lead more easily to a wrong description than a right one." William T. PowersThe goal of the theorist-the scholar-is to take a collection of observations of the world, and perceive order in them. This process necessarily imposes an artificial simplicity upon those observations. That is, specific observations are weighed differently from each other whenever a theoretical account is abstracted from raw experiences. Some observed events are misunderstood or distorted, others are seen as representing random fluctuations and are ignored, and yet others are viewed as centrally important. This abstraction and oversimplification of reality is inevitable in theory construction. Moreover, the abstracted vision builds upon itself. That is, as a structure begins to emerge from continued observation, the structure itself guides the search for new information. The result is a construction that is more elaborate than what existed before, but it still is usually simpler than reality.It is important for scholars to believe in the value of their task, and in the general correctness of the vision that guides their work. This commitment, and the hope of progress that follows from it, make it possible to continue even when the work is difficult and slow. But there is a special danger here, a danger that should not be discounted. The theorist must always be reluctant to believe that the vision is complete, that it is wholly accurate. Simplification makes reality intelligible. But the appeal of simplicity can blind one to the evidence that reality provides. And it is still reality that we are trying to describe. No matter how pretty the picture, it is of no use unless it has a reasonably good fit with reality. These points are applicable to any field of scientific endeavor. But writing this book has made us particularly sensitive to their implications for the analysis of human behavior. The planning of this book began with a very simple goal. We were going to describe a research program in which we had been engaged, and discuss its relationship to closely related work that had been conducted by others. Very quickly, however, the project began to escape its initial boundaries. In effect, the picture that existed in our minds of how self-regulation works began to guide a search for new information. That new information led in tum to a more elaborated model of reality. The result of these changes in perspective is a volume that in viii Preface certain ways is considerably more ambitious in scope than was its original conception. From a relatively simple (and safe) research monograph, the book has evolved into a more complex (and riskier) statement about behavioral self-regulation in general: we are arguing, in fact, for the viability of a model of self-regulation that departs considerably from traditional models.In making this statement about self-regulati...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Attention and Self-Regulation

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1981

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“…(Asch, 1955 ;Allen et Levine, 1971 ;Gérard et Greenbaum, 1962) ou d'un déviant (Kiesler, 1969) (Graham, 1962 ;Mouton, Blake et Olmstead, 1956). Pour Chapitre 4 Minorités et majorités « Dans la tradition américaine, on a accordé une position extraordinairement privilégiée au fait de s'en aller... Cette préférence pour le caractère de netteté que présente le départ par rapport au désordre et au déchirement que provoquent les paroles, « s'est retrouvée tout au long de notre histoire nationale ».…”

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Psychologie des minorités actives

Moscovici¹

2010

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“…A large body of literature exists that suggests that certain aspects of personality are related to susceptibility to influence (e.g., Crutchfleld, 1955;Linton & Graham, 1959;McGhee & Teevan, 1967;Mouton, Blake, & Olmstead, 1956). It also has been suggested that personality characteristics interact with situational variables to account for a greater proportion of variance in behavior than either source alone (e.g., Endler & Magnusson, 1976;McGuire, 1968).…”

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Individual differences in status generalization: Effects of need for social approval, anticipated interpersonal contact, and instrumental task abilities.

Martin

Greenstein²

1983

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Status generalization is the process through which the external status of actors is used to determine important features of social interaction. Berger and his associates used expectation states theory to explain status generalization and the inequalities in power and prestige that emerge in task-oriented groups. Two studies were conducted to extend the scope of this theory and investigate the hypothesis that need for social approval ajid differences in relative status between actors combine to structure the status-organizing process. Study 1 focused on the role of normative dependence. Results showed that approval-motivated persons were influenced by status more than their low-approval counterparts when making decisions on a cooperative group task, especially if face-to-face contact with their partner was anticipated. Study 2 focused on the role of informational dependence. Subjects in this study did not expect to meet their partner; however, a specific ability related to successful performance was introduced. A similar interaction between need for social approval and status was observed, but the effect was limited to conditions in which a task ability was present. The findings were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that the construct of need for social approval contains both an approval-seeking and a defensiveness component that are differentially activated by the anticipation of interpersonal contact and the presence of a task ability that makes performance relevant to self-conceptions.Status generalization is the process through feet of personality and selected situational which the external status of actors is used to variables on the status-organizing process, structure social interaction. Previous re-In early studies of group behavior, Bales search has shown that social characteristics and his associates (Bales, 1953; Bales & Slaof actors tend to organize the power and pres-ter, 1955) found that ad hoc groups working tige orderings within informal task groups, on a collective task develop a hierarchy of The purpose of this investigation is to explore influence within the group. Some actors parthis phenomenon further and present the re-ticipate to a greater degree, receive more acsults of two studies designed to assess the ef-tion opportunities, make more suggestions, are evaluated more positively on leadership and guidance, and have greater influence over The data described here were part of a doctoral disme group's decision making than other memsertation submitted by the first author to the Department b Th cornn onents o f interaction tend of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Del ?' V? 6 ^ components 01 interaction tena Portions of this study were also reported at the 87th annual to be highly correlated and together define meeting of the American Psychological Association, New the observable power and prestige order of York, September 1979. Thanks and appreciation are ex-the group. tended to Jack McKilli P ,Nerella Ramanaiah, Tom Mitch-Subsequent research has demonstrated that...

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The relationship between yielding, submissiveness, and the disclosure of personal identity

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Attention and Self-Regulation

Attention and Self-Regulation

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Individual differences in status generalization: Effects of need for social approval, anticipated interpersonal contact, and instrumental task abilities.

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