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- Title
EFFECT OF GROUP MEANS ON THE PROBABILITY OF CONSENSUS.
- Authors
ARIMA, YOSHIKO
- Abstract
In this study, groups who could not reach a consensus were investigated using the group polarization paradigm. The purpose was to explore the conditions leading to intragroup disagreement and attitude change following disagreement among 269 participants. Analysis indicated that the probability of consensus was low when the group means differed from the grand mean of the entire sample. When small differences among group members were found, depolarization (reverse direction of polarization) followed disagreement. These results suggested the groups which deviated most from the population tendency were the most likely to cause within-group disagreement, while within-group variances determined the direction of attitude change following disagreement within the group.
- Subjects
CONSENSUS (Social sciences); GROUPS; DECISION making; ATTITUDE change (Psychology); ENDS &; means; POLARIZATION (Social sciences); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Psychological Reports, 2012, Vol 110, Issue 2, p607
- ISSN
0033-2941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2466/01.11.17.21.PR0.110.2.607-623