Social Comparison in a Complex Experimental Environment.

Abstract

Subjects were presented with three pieces of information about each of six other persons and asked to evaluate those persons in terms of their similarity to the subject. Subjects were also asked how interested they would be in having more information about the others, in discussing a complex game with them, and in playing the game with them. Subjects' perceptions of similarity were affected significantly by all three factors on which the stimulus persons varied. Covariance analysis controlling for the effects of perceived similarity revealed a preference for playing the game with another person who had been evaluated as higher in competence by the experimenter. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0728797

Entities

People

  • Stanley M. Halpin

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Phenomena
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Mental Processes
  • Perception

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Organizational Psychology.