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The present paper pursues the inquiry further by considering what experimental Ss had to say about their experience, and what relationships exist between the way an S perceived the situation and his tendency to yield. In the earlier paper, the position was taken that Ss are not passively controlled by the group norm, but rather that they are actively engaged in problem solving. The judgmental tasks are cast in familiar multiple choice format. However, the experimental situation differs fundamentally from the typical examination in that the difficulty inheres not in the form or content of the questions but in the discrepancy between what appear to be the obvious answers and the answers being given by others. It is because the questions are so very clear and easy, and because the others are people like oneself and hence certainly able to answer correctly, that their peculiar judgments are so difficult to account for. In short, what would otherwise be a simple and straightforward examination-like task becomes a situation of conflict because of S's knowledge of others' apparent responses.

The present paper reports the correlations between yielding score and a variety of other scores and ratings available on the experimental Ss. The correlations are based on the assessment data which were available on the two groups of Ss described above i.e., a college sample and former members of the Adolescent Growth Study (AGS). Most of the results reported here were secured as part of an intensive program of data collection on the AGS sample. Two interviews a week apart, one with a male psychologist and one with a female, provided follow-up information on occupation, home and family, leisure interests, and social activities, and were the basis for an extensive set of personality ratings made by the interviewers. The article presents correlations for AGS Ss between yielding score and a list of variables selected from the interviewers' rating schedule on the bases of probable relevance, representativeness, and degree of interjudge agreement. Correlations are product moment values relating the sum of the two interviewers' ratings on a given variable to normalized total yielding score.