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The Effect of Attitude Similarity on Task Performance 1
Author(s) -
Krivonos Paul D.,
Byrne Donn,
Friedrich Gustav W.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1976.tb02406.x
Subject(s) - psychology , similarity (geometry) , task (project management) , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , economics , image (mathematics)
It was hypothesized in a two‐person situation that students would perform significantly better on intellectual tasks when paired with a liked other than when paired with a disliked other. In a laboratory experiment, 108 male undergraduates performed one of three types of intellectual tasks with an attitudinally similar or dissimilar partner or with a partner about whom the subject had no attitude information. Individuals paired with a similar partner felt affectively more positive than those paired with a dissimilar partner (p < .01). Individuals paired with a similar other performed significantly better on the tasks than those paired with a dissimilar partner ( p < .01).