Majority and minority influence, task representation and inductive reasoning
作者:
Fabrizio Butera,
Gabriel Mugny,
Paolo Legrenzi,
Juan A. Pérez,
期刊:
British Journal of Social Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 35,
issue 1
页码: 123-136
ISSN:0144-6665
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8309.1996.tb01087.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
One hundred and fifty‐five participants had to solve a set of 2–4–6 like reasoning problems (Wason, 1960), in which they were told which hypothesis a majority (or a minority) proposed, as well as which example was used for the test. In a 2 × 2 design, participants were also told that the problems allowed either one single correct answer or several possible answers. Results show that, when the source is a majority and the problem allows one single answer, most participants adopt the source's hypothesis and use confirmatory testing. On the contrary, it is when the source is a minority and the problem allows several answers that most participants give alternative hypotheses and use disconfir
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