Assessing and correcting for regression toward the mean in deviance-induced social conformity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Schnuerch, Robert ^a   Schnuerch, Martin ^b   Gibbons, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

conformity; deviance; regression toward the mean; social influence; social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995688051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00669     Document Type: Article

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