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Models for affiliative and conformity behavior.

Albert Mehrabian, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1970 - 
- Vol. 74, Iss: 2, pp 110-126
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 69 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Conformity.

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Teacher Immediacy as a Predictor of Teaching Effectiveness

TL;DR: This paper examined teacher immediacy as a potential predictor of teaching effectiveness, defined as those nonverbal behaviors that reduce physical and/or psychosomatic stressors in a teacher's classroom.
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The Authoritarian Dynamic

TL;DR: The theory of the authoritarian dynamic and the politics of fear have been studied extensively in the last few decades as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on racism and tolerance under conditions of normative threat.
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Behavioral contracting within the families of delinquents

TL;DR: A behavioral contract is a means of scheduling the exchange of positive reinforcements among two or more persons as discussed by the authors, which is used to strengthen the control of family and school over the behavior of delinquents.
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Direct Responses to People on the Screen Television and Personal Space

TL;DR: In this paper, an experiment was conducted to extend the research evidence concerning direct responses to the realm of social interaction by replicating, in the context of television viewing, key findings and predictions concerning the use of interpersonal distance.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

Leon Festinger
- 01 May 1954 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology.

TL;DR: It seems clear that the items in the Edwards Social Desirability Scale would, of necessity, have extreme social desirability scale positions or, in other words, be statistically deviant.
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