Minority InfluenceSerge Moscovici, Angelica Mucchi Faina, Anne Maass Twenty-one European and American researchers contribute their thoughts on a variety of topics relating to minority influence. The authors grapple such issues as the power of minorities to provide social change; the minorities' capacity to induce divergent thinking; group polarization; the place of historical method and the importance of field study. Contributions are grouped into three sections representing theory, limits of study, and methods. Some examples: In part one, Crano analyzes the role of social comparison processes and provides an integrative model. In part two, Worchel argues that groups evolve over time in a predictable manner and that the impact of the minority will depend on the stage of group development. In part three, Personnaz and Personnaz explain the importance of the spectrometer method. |
Contents
The Value of Minority Dissent | 3 |
Methodological | 17 |
A Few Parallels Between Group Polarization | 47 |
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Academic Press afterimage Asch attitude change Cacioppo CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ chapter choice cognitive color condition conflict conformity consensus consistent context conversion behavior Crano CRUZ The University differentiation dissent divergent thinking effect European Journal experiment Experimental Social Psychology favorable group members group polarization identify impact in-group indirect individual innovation interaction intergroup involved issue Journal of Personality Journal of Social judgments latent influence Maass and Clark majority and minority minority and majority minority influence research minority position minority source minority's Mucchi-Faina Mugny Nemeth objective opinion out-group Paicheler Papastamou paradigm perception Pérez personal relevance Personality and Social persuasive arguments play/movie predictions reactance reaction responses risky risky shift Serge Moscovici shift situation theory small group minority social categorization social comparison theory social impact theory social influence social loafing source of influence status studies subjects target task theory tion Twelve Angry Men University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Volpato Worchel York