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David G. Myers
Researcher at Hope College
Publications - 87
Citations - 9238
David G. Myers is an academic researcher from Hope College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Happiness & Social psychology (sociology). The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 87 publications receiving 8801 citations.
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Group-Induced Polarization in Simulated Juries:
David G. Myers,Martin F. Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that after discussing low guilt cases, subjects were more extreme in their judgments of innocence and more lenient in recommended punishment, and after discussing high guilt cases shifted toward harsher judgments of guilt and punishment.
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Enhancement of Dominant Attitudes in Group Discussion.
David G. Myers,George D. Bishop +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two studies were performed in an attempt to generalize the risky-cautious shift phenomenon to attitudes and to test ''information exchange and mutual reinforcement'' explanations of discussion-produced shifts.
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Polarizing effects of social comparison
TL;DR: The authors found that people who were merely exposed to others' responses tended not to conform to the average observed response but to exceed it in the socially preferred direction, suggesting that not only do people avoid being markedly deviant from others, but they also act to differentiate themselves from others toward the extreme that reflects the group ideal.
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Discussion-Induced Attitude Polarization
TL;DR: This paper examined the group polarization hypothesis and found that "good" faculty were rated and paid even more favorably after group interaction and contrariwise for "bad" faculty, while discussion of statements regarding the role of women yielded an increase in the attitude gap between the conservative and liberal communities.