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- Title
- The spurious(?) effect of gender and relationship type on the similarity of perceived attitudes.
- Creator
- Zheng, Long, Florida Atlantic University, Latane, Bibb
- Abstract/Description
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The present survey investigated the effect of gender and relationship type on the similarity of perceived attitudes. 888 Chinese university students completed the Social Relations Questionnaire, nominating those people with whom they had recently discussed important matters and describing their own and their nominees' attitudes on 16 life values. Perceived attitudes were more similar among females and among friends than among males or among relatives and other people. In all cases,...
Show moreThe present survey investigated the effect of gender and relationship type on the similarity of perceived attitudes. 888 Chinese university students completed the Social Relations Questionnaire, nominating those people with whom they had recently discussed important matters and describing their own and their nominees' attitudes on 16 life values. Perceived attitudes were more similar among females and among friends than among males or among relatives and other people. In all cases, respondents' own attitudes were more similar to their perceptions of their own partners' attitudes than to the perceived attitudes of the partners of other randomly selected respondents. However, the effect of gender and relationship type on the similarity of perceived attitudes turned out to be spurious because the same relationships were found to be true for the randomly selected pairs. I argue that the perceptions of one's partners' attitudes may be relatively accurate, since they mirror the actual patterns existing in society, and that social influence may be more important than friendship choice as a cause of similarity, since there is just as much of a similarity increment for relatives as for friends.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15201
- Subject Headings
- Social psychology--China, Attitude (Psychology)--China, Interpersonal relations--China
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- It's a small world after all: Mapping social space.
- Creator
- Bonevento, Michael D., Florida Atlantic University, Latane, Bibb
- Abstract/Description
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This study surveyed over 500 persons. It examined whether the physical distance dimension of our social world or "social space" is still a force in shaping the interaction between people when modern transportation and communication makes interaction with distant others more feasible. Using both oral, and mass interviews, participants were asked to describe the character, frequency of contact, importance, and distance of their contacts within a 24-hour period. As predicted by Latane's (1981)...
Show moreThis study surveyed over 500 persons. It examined whether the physical distance dimension of our social world or "social space" is still a force in shaping the interaction between people when modern transportation and communication makes interaction with distant others more feasible. Using both oral, and mass interviews, participants were asked to describe the character, frequency of contact, importance, and distance of their contacts within a 24-hour period. As predicted by Latane's (1981) social impact theory, the bulk of the relationships occurred at close distances. Over two-thirds of the relationships occurred at distances of 10 niles or less. Relationship type affected the distance, frequency of contact, and importance of relationships significantly. "Partners" had higher frequencies of contact and shorter reported distance than either relatives or friends. A positive relationship between importance and distance seems to indicate that some far contacts can be maintained.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15153
- Subject Headings
- Interpersonal relations, Social interaction, Spatial behavior, Spatial behavior in animals
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Thought- and information-induced polarization: The role of involvement in making attitudes extreme.
- Creator
- Harton, Helen C., Florida Atlantic University, Latane, Bibb
- Abstract/Description
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The catastrophe theory of attitudes (Latane & Nowak, 1994) predicts that extremity will be a function of involvement, with uninvolving attitudes normally distributed about a neutral midpoint and involving attitudes categorical and extreme. Two processes that may lead attitudes to become more involving and extreme were tested in this experiment--thought-induced polarization and information-induced polarization. College students rated social issues before and after thinking and/or reading...
Show moreThe catastrophe theory of attitudes (Latane & Nowak, 1994) predicts that extremity will be a function of involvement, with uninvolving attitudes normally distributed about a neutral midpoint and involving attitudes categorical and extreme. Two processes that may lead attitudes to become more involving and extreme were tested in this experiment--thought-induced polarization and information-induced polarization. College students rated social issues before and after thinking and/or reading information about them. Attitudes became more extreme after respondents read mixed information about the attitude object, particularly for issues on which participants were initially uninvolved, but did not extremify after thought alone. There was little evidence for selective encoding or retrieval or for biased assimilation, though increases in attitude extremity were associated with increases in involvement. Thus, as predicted by catastrophe theory, reading mixed information may increase involvement in an issue, which in turn leads to more extreme attitudes.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15110
- Subject Headings
- Attitude change, Attitude (Psychology), Polarity (Psychology)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Dynamic social impact in electronic juries: The emergence of subgroup clustering through small group communication.
- Creator
- Jackson, Craig Campbell, Florida Atlantic University, Latane, Bibb, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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Testing a new theory of dynamic social influence, 39 mock juries in two studies deliberated student honor court cases by electronic mail. After reading about each case, participants sent and received messages to a spatially coherent or random subset of jurors on each of five sessions. Individuals appeared to take their role of juror seriously and were responsive to each others' arguments; one-third changed their verdicts after receiving two out of two opposing messages and just over half...
Show moreTesting a new theory of dynamic social influence, 39 mock juries in two studies deliberated student honor court cases by electronic mail. After reading about each case, participants sent and received messages to a spatially coherent or random subset of jurors on each of five sessions. Individuals appeared to take their role of juror seriously and were responsive to each others' arguments; one-third changed their verdicts after receiving two out of two opposing messages and just over half changed in the face of four of four opposing messages. Polarization toward the majority verdict was common in both studies; however, consistent with a key prediction of dynamic social impact theory, unanimity was suppressed among the spatial compared to random juries by the emergence of spatially distinct subgroups. Clustering and polarization were prevalent even among juries passing as few as two messages per juror each round, providing strong evidence that DSIT applies even to important issues.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15230
- Subject Headings
- Social psychology, Small groups, Communication in small groups, Group decision making
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interacting in electronic space: Group dynamics resulting from individual change.
- Creator
- L'Herrou, Todd Alan, Florida Atlantic University, Latane, Bibb, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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Three studies use interaction in groups to test macro-level phenomena of the type predicted by computer simulations of dynamic social impact theory, an interactive, reciprocal, and recursive extension of Latane's (1981) theory of social impact, which specifies how individuals are affected by their social environment. A key prediction of dynamic social impact theory is that such phenomena as clustering and polarization of attitudes will emerge from social interactions among spatially...
Show moreThree studies use interaction in groups to test macro-level phenomena of the type predicted by computer simulations of dynamic social impact theory, an interactive, reciprocal, and recursive extension of Latane's (1981) theory of social impact, which specifies how individuals are affected by their social environment. A key prediction of dynamic social impact theory is that such phenomena as clustering and polarization of attitudes will emerge from social interactions among spatially distributed people. Study One, using a group of 24 people corresponding with their neighbors about an attitudinal topic, found both substantial polarization and a suggestive tendency toward clustering. Studies Two and Three, using 192 people organized into 48 24-person groups, provide strong empirical support for the emergence of clustering and incomplete polarization, and extend the findings to two alternative spatial structures. As predicted, a control geometry, involving random connections without any spatial organization, failed to produce clustering. Directions for future research are discussed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14821
- Subject Headings
- Human behavior--Computer simulation, Social interaction, Social groups
- Format
- Document (PDF)
