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Differences in Accuracy of Public and Private Judgments
Author(s) -
TAYLOR RICHARD L.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1966.tb00481.x
Subject(s) - psychology , sample (material) , social psychology , chromatography , chemistry
The purpose of the present study was to compare accuracy of judgmental behaviour when S s responded before an audience of attentive but non‐communicating peers, which was regarded as a condition of incidental group pressure, and when they responded alone. In a sample of twenty‐five college students a highly significant increase in accuracy of response was found for both verbal and drawn estimates of the length of a line when there was incidental group pressure. It was suggested that incidental group pressure functions as a preliminary stage of communication.