Self-dissatisfaction as a determinent of change in police values.

Pretested experimental and control groups of 384 police officers on the Rokeach Value Survey and for their tolerance ratings on S. A. Stouffer's Nonconformist Tolerance Scale. The experimental group compared their personal ratings with others (both police and nonpolice), were exposed to concepts of equality before the law, and then were asked to indicate the degree of satisfaction-dissatisfaction they felt over their rating of the value equality . Changes in Ss' values resulted from exposure to the inconsistencies between the low priority of equality vs Ss' concept of themselves as just, fair, and tolerant. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)