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Suggestibility Of Placebo Reactors And Non-Reactors In The Autokinetic Situation, Lee Glenn Mason
Suggestibility Of Placebo Reactors And Non-Reactors In The Autokinetic Situation, Lee Glenn Mason
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The phenomenon of not relying solely up on one's own judgment and of distorting one's perception toward a perceived social norm has been observed to take place with a rather large percentage of subjects participating in a number of research projects. Both Asch and Sherif have done extensive work showing this distortion of perception when an individual is placed in a group setting and finds himself in a contradictory position between his own perception and that of the other group members.