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Effects of Agreement and Correctness on Relative Competence and Conformity.

Ronald F. Ettinger
- 01 Aug 1971 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 2, pp 204-212
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1971-08-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Conformity & Correctness.

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Deception in Experiments: Revisiting the Arguments in Its Defense

TL;DR: In psychology, deception is commonly used to increase experimental control as discussed by the authors. Yet, its use has provoked concerns that it raises participants' suspicions, prompts second-guessing of experimenters' true intentions, and ultimately distorts behavior and endangers the control it is meant to achieve.
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The costs of deception : Evidence from psychology

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that the experience of having been deceived generates suspicion that in turn is likely to affect the judgment and decision-making of a non-negligible number of participants.
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Self-esteem and intelligence affect influenceability: The mediating role of message reception.

TL;DR: A meta-analytic review was conducted to determine whether message recipients' self-esteem or intelligence predicts influenceability as mentioned in this paper, finding that low intelligence recipients were more influenceable than highly intelligent ones.
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The Costs of Deception: Evidence From Psychology

TL;DR: This paper found that the experience of having been deceived generates suspicion which in turn is likely to affect judgment and decision-making of a non-negligible number of participants, and they concluded that experimental economists' prohibition of deception is a sensible convention that economists should not abandon.
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The Relation Between Group Members' Self-Confidence and Their Reactions to Group Pressures to Uniformity

TL;DR: The tendency of social groups to produce uniformity of opinions, beliefs, attitudes and behavior among their members has been observed for a long time as mentioned in this paper, and a considerable amount of experimental data has been obtained by controlled laboratory studies in support of this systematic analysis of group process.
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Some current issues in the psychology of conformity and nonconformity.

TL;DR: In this article, a distinction is made between movement conformity and congruence conformity in terms of responses to present versus past influence pressures, and a two-dimensional model is viewed as more appropriate to the actual response alternatives available to the individual when faced with an assertion of influence.
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