Distance as a determinant of influence in a two-person serial interaction situation.

"Pairs of Ss were placed in a social influence situation requiring judgments of the number of paratroopers seen in briefly exposed photographs… . distance (the size of the discrepancy between S's judgment and his partner's) was systematically varied by intercepting S's written estimate and replacing it with a bogus estimate at a predetermined distance. The amount of influence… is significantly related to distance." (24 ref.) From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:1GE30F. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)