Previous work by other investigators has shown that a sharply cusped minimum occurs in the resistivity‐temperature relationship for fully recrystallized chromium at the Ne´el temperature, i.e., 35°C. Plastic deformation, on the other hand, eliminates this minimum, and in addition gives rise to a pronounced change in the resistivity‐temperature relationship over a wide range of temperatures centered about the Ne´el temperature. These results have been corroborated in the present paper. Furthermore, this behavior has been analyzed and interpreted in terms of the strong dependence of the Ne´el temperature on hydrostatic stresses which are thought to arise from the presence of dislocations in the deformed material.