Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to compare accuracy of judgmental behaviour when Ss responded before an audience of attentive but non‐communicating peers, which was regarded as a condition of incidental group pressure, and when they responded alone. In a sample of twenty‐five college students a highly significant increase in accuracy of response was found for both verbal and drawn estimates of the length of a line when there was incidental group pressure. It was suggested that incidental group pressure functions as a preliminary stage of communication.
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