Abstract
THELEN, MARK H.; MILLER, DAVID J.; FEHRENBACH, PETER A.; FRAUTSCHI, NANETTE M.; and FISHBEIN, M. DANIEL. Imitation during Play as a Means of Social Influence. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1980, 51, 918-920. The purpose of the study was to assess the possibility that children may use imitation as a means of social influence. The subjects were 57 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade boys and girls who were matched with a child of the same sex, but 1 grade lower than themselves. The younger child was coached to serve as the model. Social influence subjects were given an induction designed to motivate them to influence the model; control subjects received no such induction. Following the induction, the social influence subjects imitated the model significantly more than the control subjects. Smiling was positively correlated with imitation for the social influence but not for the control subjects.
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