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John W. McDavid
Researcher at University of Miami
Publications - 18
Citations - 637
John W. McDavid is an academic researcher from University of Miami. The author has contributed to research in topics: Conformity & Social inertia. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 18 publications receiving 629 citations.
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Name Stereotypes and Teachers' Expectations.
Herbert Harari,John W. McDavid +1 more
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Stereotyping of names and popularity in grade-school children.
John W. McDavid,Herbert Harari +1 more
TL;DR: The relation between rated social desirability of first names and sociometric popularity status in elementary-school children was investigated in this article, where it was found that popularity was also correlated significantly with social-desirability values of names as rated by members of other groups relatively unfamiliar with the individual bearing that name.
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Situational influence on moral justice: a study of "finking".
Herbert Harari,John W. McDavid +1 more
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Achievement motivation, affiliation motivation, and task difficulty as determinants of social conformity.
Francis Sistrunk,John W. McDavid +1 more
TL;DR: An analysis of variance of frequencies of conforming behavior revealed that conformity occurs more frequently on maximally ambiguous perceptual tasks than on relatively unambiguous ones, and more often on unambiguous tasks which are characterized by lack of subjective confidence in accuracy of judgment.