Effects of social influence in a recognition task of auditory intensity: a temporary shift in criterion

The effects of responses of another person or a computer occurring prior to the subjects' responses in tasks to recognition model which assumed that subjects shifted their decision criteria temporarily on each trial. A parameter representing the amount of criterion shift reliably estimated sens...

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Published inPerceptual and motor skills Vol. 42; no. 1; p. 75
Main Authors Biderman, M D, McBrayer, W D, La Montagne, M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.02.1976
Subjects
Auditory Perception
Computers
Decision Making
Discrimination (Psychology)
Humans
Imitative Behavior
Male
Social Conformity
Social Perception
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Summary:The effects of responses of another person or a computer occurring prior to the subjects' responses in tasks to recognition model which assumed that subjects shifted their decision criteria temporarily on each trial. A parameter representing the amount of criterion shift reliably estimated sensitivity to social influence. When the social sensitivity parameter was estimated from the data, discriminative ability, defined as d', was unaffected by the presence of social influence. Principal components analyses suggested that social sensitivity and discriminative ability represented essentially orthogonal components of subjects' decision behavior.
ISSN:0031-5125
DOI:10.2466/pms.1976.42.1.75