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Performance On An Anagram Task As A Function Of Experimenter Status And Subject Dogmatism, Michele Ballering
Performance On An Anagram Task As A Function Of Experimenter Status And Subject Dogmatism, Michele Ballering
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of experimenter status and subject dogmatism on anagram solving. The subjects were 90 college students. Only those subjects scoring in the upper or lower thirds on the Dogmatism Scale were utilized. The same experimenter was described as being of either high or low status in each class. In the low status condition, the experimenter was introduced as a student making up an incomplete, while in the high status condition, the experimenter was introduced as a Doctoral student doing research for a Federal Grant Agency. Therefore, four experimental groups were formed …