TY - JOUR PY - 1948// TI - Social norms and the individual JO - Journal of abnormal and social psychology A1 - Bovard, Everett W. SP - 62 EP - 69 VL - 43 IS - 1 N2 -


The extent of movement of a point of light was judged 50 times by each of 9 subjects when alone, then with a planted experimenter whose pre-arranged judgments established a "social norm," and alone 28 days later. There were wide individual differences in autokinetic suggestibility, and these effects carried over the 28-day period. Susceptibility to norms may reflect varying desire for status. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

LA - SN - 0096-851X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0061747 ID - ref1 ER -