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Test whether three distinct response modes in social influence situations—conformity, independence, and anticonformity—can be systematically produced and brought under experimental control in a laboratory setting.

August 1, 1964Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology

An experimental study of three response modes in social influence situations.

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Test whether three distinct response modes in social influence situations—conformity, independence, and anticonformity—can be systematically produced and brought under experimental control in a laboratory setting.
Simultaneously manipulated multiple independent variables across three experimental groups designed to maximize conformity, independence, or anticonformity, respectively.
Evaluated participant responses across multiple trials using measures of net conformity (conformity minus anticonformity), independence, and movement scores toward theoretical limits.
Targeted conditions produced sizeable, differential responses among the three groups in both net conformity and overall independence scores.
Participants in the independence-maximizing condition closely approached the theoretical upper limit for independent behavior.
Conformity and anticonformity groups approached their respective theoretical limits less closely than the independence group, but demonstrated larger magnitudes of movement toward those limits.

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Laboratory experiment demonstrates experimental control over conformity, independence, and anticonformity in social influence groups, indicating predictable behavioral modulation under targeted...

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Willis et al. (1964) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0eb745950456576347b334 https://doi.org/10.1037/h0048705

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Laboratory experiment demonstrates experimental control over conformity, independence, and anticonformity in social influence groups, indicating predictable behavioral modulation under targeted...

An experimental study of three response modes in social influence situations.

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