Status, Authoritarianism, and Conformity

Description

The Moore data frame has 45 rows and 4 columns. The data are for subjects in a social-psychological experiment, who were faced with manipulated disagreement from a partner of either of low or high status. The subjects could either conform to the partner's judgment or stick with their own judgment.

Usage

Moore

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

partner.status

Partner's status. A factor with levels: high, low.

conformity

Number of conforming responses in 40 critical trials.

fcategory

F-Scale Categorized. A factor with levels (note levels out of order): high, low, medium.

fscore

Authoritarianism: F-Scale score.

Source

Moore, J. C., Jr. and Krupat, E. (1971) Relationship between source status, authoritarianism and conformity in a social setting. Sociometry 34, 122–134.

Personal communication from J. Moore, Department of Sociology, York University.

References

Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage.