Psychologization and processes of minority and majority influence
β Scribed by Stamos Papastamou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1014 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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The role of distinctiveness information in majority and minority inΒ―uence was studied. Students read a message containing strong or weak arguments advocated by a minority or majority source. The communicator's minority (majority) status was said to be either distinctive to the target topic or nondis
## Ninety-three snuients were exposed to majority and minority influence i n an inductive reasoning task. The former induced convergent thinking processes, though its eflects were not reducible to mere compliance. The latter activated more diverge& constructive processes, supporting the predictions