| Abstract: | Hypothesized that the resident over visitor advantage would surface in triads and that it would accrue to low-dominance as well as high-dominance persons. 68 male freshmen completed the Gough 60-point Dominance Scale and a questionnaire on university budget cuts. 10 triads, each composed of a low-, medium-, and high-dominance male, met in either the high- or low-dominance person's room to reach consensus on the budget problem. The group's solution most closely reflected the resident's original solution to the problem, even if he was outnumbered by his visitors in his decision and regardless of whether he was a high- or low-dominance person. Parallel results were obtained from questionnaire data. Dyad-centered work on residential advantage should be combined with group-centered work on territorial behavior and position in a dominance hierarchy to more closely reflect the nested nature of small-group interaction within larger-sized social groupings. (32 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
