Abstract
In a recent paper (1981a) and reply to a comment (1981b), Lee and Ofshe purport to compare the status characteristic theory with a styles of behavior theory they have constructed. They report on an experiment comparing the effects of a status characteristic and variations in styles of behavior on influence. In this experiment, style of behavior has an effect but the status characteristic does Conjoining this result with some important empirical regularities, Lee and Ofshe argue that this experiment provides crucial evidence for a styles of behavior explanation and crucial evidence against a status characteristics explanation of differentiation in groups whose members are distinguished by characteristics such as race, sex, ethnicity, occupation, etc.' They say that when demeanor and status are experimentally separated, demeanor predicts influence and status does not. They also say, Had status and demeanor both shown effects, the expectation states theory would have been undamaged and the two-process theory wounded.
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