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Lohman, Mark R. – 1970
The study takes place in a field setting at three different schools. Each group is composed of two black and two white students assigned randomly to either an experimental or control condition. Fourteen groups were run for each condition or a total of 28 groups. In the control condition both blacks and whites receive the same neutral training…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Black Students, Decision Making, Expectation
Cohen, Elizabeth G.; And Others – 1970
This experiment attempted to alter the effects of race as a diffuse status characteristic. Black subjects were given instructions meant to induce "high competence" on a task performed with white subjects. All subjects were seventh and eighth graders who did not know each other prior to the experiment. Each group comprised two white and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Black Students, Decision Making, Expectation
Cohen, Elizabeth G. – 1968
In this study, the status ordering of a four-man group working on a task requiring discussion and decision was predicted on the basis of status characteristic theory. Two of the group members were white; two were black. They were matched as to age, height, and also on a combined index of socioeconomic status and attitude toward school. The…
Descriptors: Black Students, Decision Making, Group Dynamics, Group Status