1988'4, p.143
Tsiskaridze M. A.
Attitude as a decision-making factor for a person in a group
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Group as a factor which can reveal disposition of a person for conformity has been studied with two different kinds of the attitude on the part of the person to the experimental situation: in one case the subject was oriented toward guessing randomly presented stimuli (situation called "imitation"), in the other - toward "the play with an opponent" ("conflict"). Three dummies and one naive subject participated in every experimental situation. Two behavior groups have been revealed: 1) dependent (conforming) subjects whose decisions were made under the influence of the group, 2) independent subjects who made decisions irrespective of others present. It has been also found that the more uncertain the situation is the more dependent are the subjects. In the "imitation" situation dependence was higher than in "conflict".