Informational and Normative Influences in Conformity from a Neurocomputational Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 579-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Toelch ◽  
Raymond J. Dolan
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Author(s):  
Alicia A. Stachowski ◽  
John T. Kulas

Abstract. The current paper explores whether self and observer reports of personality are properly viewed through a contrasting lens (as opposed to a more consonant framework). Specifically, we challenge the assumption that self-reports are more susceptible to certain forms of response bias than are informant reports. We do so by examining whether selves and observers are similarly or differently drawn to socially desirable and/or normative influences in personality assessment. Targets rated their own personalities and recommended another person to also do so along shared sets of items diversely contaminated with socially desirable content. The recommended informant then invited a third individual to additionally make ratings of the original target. Profile correlations, analysis of variances (ANOVAs), and simple patterns of agreement/disagreement consistently converged on a strong normative effect paralleling item desirability, with all three rater types exhibiting a tendency to reject socially undesirable descriptors while also endorsing desirable indicators. These tendencies were, in fact, more prominent for informants than they were for self-raters. In their entirety, our results provide a note of caution regarding the strategy of using non-self informants as a comforting comparative benchmark within psychological measurement applications.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diala R. Hawi ◽  
Linda R. Tropp ◽  
David A. Butz ◽  
Mirona A. Gheorghiu ◽  
Alexandra M. Zetes

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Levy
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AbstractIf Knobe is right that ordinary judgments are normatively suffused, how do scientists free themselves from these influences? I suggest that because science is distributed and externalized, its claims can be manipulated in ways that allow normative influences to be hived off. This allows scientists to deploy concepts which are not normatively suffused. I suggest that there are good reasons to identify these normatively neutral concepts with the folk concepts.


1997 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Groeger ◽  
P.R. Chapman
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