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- Title
Sex and Conformity: A New View.
- Authors
Newton, Rae R.; Schulman, Gary I.
- Abstract
The article presents a study that tests the hypothesis that women are more influenced by a group than men. The hypothesis is evaluated through a comparison of responses between subjects with information on the group's responses and are anonymous to the group, and subjects with information on the group's responses and whose responses can be assessed by the group. The conformity behavior of the subjects is observed in terms of a unidimensional conformity-independence model.. Researchers used the term conformity when referring to a group's influence on the subject similar to the group, while anticonformity makes the behavior of the subject dissimilar to the group. Independence refers to the unaffected behavior of the subject by the group.
- Subjects
SOCIAL influence; INFLUENCE; SOCIAL conditions of women; ATTITUDE (Psychology); SOCIAL groups; GENDER role; GENDER differences (Psychology); CONFORMITY; AUTONOMY (Psychology)
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1977, Vol 3, Issue 6, p511
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00287835