Examines response to group pressure involving different judgments and social situations. One bipolar dimension included conformity and anticonformity, the other, conformity and independence. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)

Attempts to relate psychological reactance and conformity and concludes that the social situation and personality factors necessarily play a part in specifications of the psychological reactance concept. (MB)

Offers evidence that experimental results may be distorted by subject nonnaivety and notes the need to eliminate such contamination, as well as means of assuring subject naivety. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Tests the hypothesis that an ingratiating subordinate will receive more rewards when the one in power is also faced with a hostile subordinate. Finds that an ingratiating subordinate receives more than his share of rewards regardless, and that all compliant subordinates receive even more when a hostile subordinate is present. (MB)

This article presents an investigation into the effects of peer group interaction on moral judgment among 36 male and female eleventh and twelfth graders. The results indicate greater social conflict and pressure in a group discussion induces greater change in the level of moral judgment. (DE)

Explores the relationship of anxiety and field dependency in individuals to their tendency to conform to the judgments of others. A significant interaction occurred between field dependency and the prior reinforcement of a subject's judgment. Tables and bibliography. (RW)