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Reply to Turner's comments
Author(s) -
Bornstein Gershon,
Crum Larry,
Wittenbraker John,
Harring Kathleen,
Insko Chester A.,
Thibaut John
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420130404
Subject(s) - assertion , psychology , cover story , social psychology , group (periodic table) , cover (algebra) , continuous variable , yield (engineering) , variable (mathematics) , binary number , statistics , mathematics , computer science , arithmetic , mathematical analysis , mechanical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering , programming language , materials science , metallurgy
In response to Turner it was argued that the maximizing outcomes assumption is plausible, his ‘continuous variable’ assumption is implausible, and his assertion that sets of pull scores yield unconfounded measures is incorrect. In addition to considering still further matters, such as the reduction of Tajfel matrices to simplified‐binary matrices, data from two new experiments were presented. One experiment reveals that, contrary to Turner's reservations, the allocution of points (or money) to one own‐group and one other‐group member versus different own‐group and different other‐group members has no differential effect. The second experiment found that Turner's assertion that Bornstein et al.'s cover story created a sense of precedence that reduced fairness is incorrect. In view of the existence of a clearly superior alternative it was concluded that further use of the Tajfel matrices would be unwise.