Accommodation Motivation Moderates Group-level Dissonance

• Main Authors: LEUNG, Angela K.-Y., AU, Evelyn Wing-Mun, CHIU, Chi-Yue
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: group-level dissonance; accommodation motivation; individual difference measure; opinion shift; dissonance discomfort; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1011
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Group dissonance describes a state of psychological discomfort that arises from an interpersonal source (e.g., an individual holding a position discrepant from that of the group). Recent research has shown that group-level dissonance reduction may explain conformity in small group settings (Matz &a...