Intersubjective Communication Research Articles

Note on Scuttlebutt Effect among College Students

Intersubject communication among 94 college students was investigated with Ss assigned to 1 of 3 test days. A modified figure-ground stimulus was varied across days, with “LEFT,” “ETLF,” and nonsense shapes being presented on Days 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Although complete communication of the stimulus was not found, instructions designed to elicit reports of intersubject communication resulted in slight evidence for leakage of information.

Coercion, Assassination, Conspiracy: Pejorative Political LanguageCoercion: Nomos XIV. By J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman Assassination and the Political Order. By William J. Crotty The Fear of Conspiracy. By David Brion Davis

In political words often evoke either idealism or cynicism. Some words immediately suggest lofty principles-justice, equality, democracy, the common good. Other words are utterly pejorative-coercion, assassination, conspiracy. The tendency of words used for the expression of political ideas to fall into one of these sets is among the most burdensome crosses which political science must bear. Intersubjective communication is clearly inhibited. The result is that political science is far behind other scientific enterprises in terms of fulfilling the essential purposes of science -explanation and prediction. I suppose that this is a fact of life which is immutable so long as political scientists employ the of politics itself. An alternative is possibly an which might do for political science what ideal philosophers seek to do for philosophy. This appears remote even though mathematics plays an increasingly important role as the ideal language of many political scientists. In the meantime most shall continue to work with the ambiguous and emotive character of our ordinary language. The works reviewed here have in common the fact that each deals with a key word that prompts a similar reaction of repulsion. The reaction is much the same as that prompted by such names as Oswald, Bremer, and Benedict Arnold.

Reinforcement Effects on Intersubject Communication: The Scuttlebutt Effect

Fifth and sixth grade children served as Ss to assess the effects of scuttlebutt, intersubject communication, on experimental research. The technique employed 2 test stimuli (LEFT and ETLF) which consisted of letters “embedded” between meaningless black shapes such that the letters were continuous with ground. On the first testing day half of the children were tested. Each S was shown the stimulus LEFT and asked to tell E what he saw. All Ss were told the correct answer and requested not to tell anyone about the experiment. On the second day the stimulus presented was ETLF. In the first study candy was used as a reward; in the second study no reward was used. Chi-square analyses showed a significant amount of intersubject communication was demonstrated in both studies although full communication, i.e., specification of the correct response, primarily occurred in the presence of reward.

A methodological note on intersubject communication as a contaminating factor in psychological experiments

A methodological note on intersubject communication as a contaminating factor in psychological experiments

Kaip suprasti kitą? (Apie žmonių bendravimo sunkumus)

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas žmonių bendravimo procesas ir jame kylančios problemos. Teigiama, kad nekomunikabilumas yra ne bendravimo negalimumas apskritai, bet nesugebėjimas perduoti arba priimti tam tikrą informaciją. Nekomunikabilumą nulemia labai įvairūs socialiniai, psichologiniai, pažintiniai komunikatorių prieštaravimai. Jei informacijos perdavėjas yra vienoje situacijoje, kultūriniame kontekste, o jos priėmėjas – kitoje, nesusikalbėjimas tampa neišvengiamas. Bendravimą gali sukliudyti ir siuntėjo nusiteikimo neatitinkantis interpretatoriaus nusistatymas. Kiekvienas komunikacinis aktas turi ir nekomunikabilumo momentą – kiekvienas susikalbėjimas yra nepilnas, dalinis, netikslus. Daroma išvada, kad kuo bendravimas paviršutiniškesnis, tuo jis gali būti masiškesnis; specializacijos procese, bendravimui gilėjant, komunikatorių ratas siaurėja. Pabrėžiama, kad šie momentai yra svarbūs nagrinėjant šiuolaikinės visuomenės individo nekomunikabilumą.

Avoidance of inter-subject communication.

Avoidance of inter-subject communication.