Age, Intelligence, and Sex as Variables in the Conformity Behavior of Negro and White Children

Iscoe, Ira; Williams, Martha E.; Harvey, Jerry B.

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“…She found that Ss in the 7 to 10 age group conformed more than did Ss in the age group from 10 to 13. Iscoe, Harvey, and Williams ( 1964), in a study similar to the present one, using simulated group techniques to study age, intelligence, and sex in the conformity of black and white children, found that conformity is a decreasing function of age. Results also showed that males of both racial groups were similar in their conformity behavior.…”

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“…Seven-yr.-old Ss will conform more than 11-yr.-old Ss (Berenda, 1950;Iscoe, Harvey, & Williams, 1964). Greater conformity will be shown in white confederate groups than in black confederate groups (Stevenson & Stewart, 1958;Clark & Clark, 1950).…”

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“…In the simulated group technique used by Iscoe, Harvey, and Williams (1964), Ss were placed in a conformity-pressure situation in which they heard taped voices of children of the same age, sex and intelligence. Ss were not tested in face-to-face confrontation or placed in a racial minority.…”

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“…These differences were further qualified by a differential effect across task difficulty. There have been previous findings in the literature (Iscoe & Williams 1963;Iscoe et al 1964) that children display little selectivity but conform generally regardless of task difficulty or task abilities. However, the present data show differential responses to task difficulty by the younger as well as the older children.…”

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“…Berenda (1950) reported that 7-10-year-old subjects conformed more than 10-13-year-olds. These kinds of data led some reviewers to conclude that conformity was inversely related to a person's age (Campbell 1961), and Iscoe, Williams, and Harvey (1964) showed decreasing conformity with increasing age for 7-, 9-, 12-, and 15-year-old children. This trend held for both white and Negro children, but only with one of the investigators' criteria for conformity.…”

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Developmental Comparisons of Conformity across Two Cultures

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Guenther³

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Majority influence in children and other animals

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Edelson

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We here review existing evidence for majority influences in children under the age of ten years and comparable studies with animals ranging from fish to apes. Throughout the review, we structure the discussion surrounding majority influences by differentiating the behaviour of individuals in the presence of a majority and the underlying mechanisms and motivations. Most of the relevant research to date in both developmental psychology and comparative psychology has focused on the behavioural outcomes, where a multitude of mechanisms could be at play. We further propose that interpreting cross-species differences in behavioural patterns is difficult without considering the psychology of the individual. Some attempts at this have been made both in developmental psychology and comparative psychology. We propose that physiological measures should be used to subsidize behavioural studies in an attempt to understand the composition of mechanisms and motivations underlying majority influence. We synthesize the relevant evidence on human brain function in order to provide a framework for future investigation in this area. In addition to streamlining future research efforts, we aim to create a conceptual platform for productive exchanges across the related disciplines of developmental and comparative psychology.

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Age, Intelligence, and Sex as Variables in the Conformity Behavior of Negro and White Children

Cited by 14 publications

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Conformity as a Function of Race and Age

Conformity as a Function of Race and Age

Developmental Comparisons of Conformity across Two Cultures

Majority influence in children and other animals

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