Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kenworthy, Jared B
• Miller, Norman

Titel

Perceptual Asymmetry in Consensus Estimates of Majority and Minority Members

Ist Teil von

• Journal of personality and social psychology, 2001-04, Vol.80 (4), p.597-612

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Three experiments revealed a consistent pattern of consensus estimates. Numerical status and group growth or decline were manipulated between subjects. Growth was manipulated orthogonally to a 3rd variable: focus. Focus was manipulated by describing growth information with respect either to the in-group or the out-group (e.g., in-group growth and out-group decline). A Numerical Status × Focus interaction emerged in Study 1. Numerical minority members' consensus estimates for an opinion issue increased when growth information was out-group focused, whereas majority members' estimates did not differ as a function of the focus variable. Study 2 replicated these effects across other opinion dimensions. Study 3 confirmed the importance of the growth and focus variables in the absence of numerical status manipulations.