Conformity effects in memory as a function of group size, dissenters and uncertainty

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 793-810

  Walther, Eva ^a   Bless, Herbert ^b   Strack, Fritz ^c   Rackstraw, Patsy ^a   Wagner, Doris ^b   Werth, Lioba ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL ASPECT; VISION;

EID: 0347691130     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.828     Document Type: Article

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