Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
General persuasibility--a person's readiness to accept social influence from others irrespective of what he or she knows about the communicator or what it is that the communicator is advocating--is studied. Significant contributions on individual differences in persuasibility made by a number of psychologists associated with the Yale Communication and Attitude Change Program are brought together in this volume.
Burton et al. (1960) studied this question.