Playgroup attractiveness studied with information integration theory |
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Authors: | Ramadhar Singh Usha R. Sidana Surinder K. Saluja |
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Affiliation: | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India;Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India;Acharya Narendra Dev Post-Graduate College, Kanpur, India |
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Abstract: | Playgroup attractiveness was studied in two critical tests of information integration theory. In Experiment 1, the ratio of good to bad members in the group, and the number of toys available to the group, were varied in a 4 × 4 factorial design. The results obeyed the parallelism prediction of the theory, thereby indicating that group attractiveness was a sum or an average of the two given pieces of information. Experiment 2 provided a critical qualitative test between the adding and averaging hypotheses. The results eliminated the adding rule, supported the averaging rule. These results illustrate the potential power that integration theory provides to the experimental study of group attractiveness in children. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be addressed to Ramadhar Singh Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-208016 U.P. India. |
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