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Abstract
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The frequencies of occurrence of acts which represented degrees of satisfaction of the purpose of pedestrian traffic regulations were plotted against F. H. Allport's "telic continuum." The curve representing the actions of the 11,339 pedestrians observed in this study is not a typical J-curve, probably because of a mixture of the data on downtown and residential pedestrians, together with a mixture of the data on newness and oldness of the law. Other curves plotted suggest that conformity-producing factors are: greater amount of traffic in the downtown area, probability of the sudden appearance of a traffic officer, and newness of the operation of the law. A special study of 63 persons suggests that complete non-conformity of pedestrians may be accounted for in part by the high percentage of non-drivers of automobiles among this group. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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