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Peer reviewedKhoury, Robert M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
Observed the ways in which norm formation and social conformity are engaged in the joke setting. Despite the "cautious" operational definition of the convergence concept, the basic finding of convergence nevertheless seems fairly absolute and pertinent to the individual's day-to-day social relations. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, College Students, Conformity, Convergent Thinking
Peer reviewedPrerost, Frank J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1980
To investigate the involvement of spatial and social density in the appreciation of humor, adolescents participated under conditions of high and low spatial density. High spatial density was found to significantly diminish appreciation of three humor types. Significant sex and age differences in reactivity to spatial density were also found.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Group Behavior
Peer reviewedLamm, Helmut; Myers, David G. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Social-emotional and rational-cognitive explanations of group risky shift on choice dilemmas (hypothetical life situations) were evaluated by comparing shift in groups of low Mach (emotional) and high Mach (non-emotional) subjects. Effects of Machiavellian beliefs on social functioning are examined. Group composition was not observed to affect…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Group Behavior, Personality Theories, Research Projects
Peer reviewedAmir, Taha – Social Behavior and Personality, 1984
Investigated whether conformity in the experimental setting suggested by Asch was related to American culture and less likely to be replicable elsewhere. Kuwaiti subjects (N=200) were used in replicating the original experiment. Obtained an 'Asch effect' of a comparable magnitude to that of Asch. Individual differences in conformity were evident.…
Descriptors: College Students, Conformity, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedOgunlade, James O. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1979
Findings suggest that extroverts are more likely to be susceptible to behavioral contagion, i.e., spontaneous imitation of another's behavior, than introverts. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior
Peer reviewedDiener, Edward – Social Behavior and Personality, 1977
It is concluded that research has failed to confirm the causal role of deindividuation in releasing antisocial behavior. Research strategies are suggested which will help more quickly to verify or disconfirm the existence and causal role of the construct. (Author)
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Behavior Patterns, Group Behavior, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedKanekar, Suresh; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
Female college students were selected on the basis of their scores on the Manifest Anxiety Scale. The subjects worked either alone or in pairs. The experiment had a two x two x two design, with group type (nominal versus real), manifest anxiety (low versus high), and induces stress (low versus high) as the three variables. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Females, Group Behavior
