NEGRO-WHITE COMPARISONS IN SOCIAL CONFORMITY.

Patterns of Negro and white conformity behavior were compared. A 2 by 2 by 2 factorial analysis of variance design was employed with Race, Sex, and Task Difficulty as independent variables. All three main effects were significant, with females yielding more than males, Negroes yielding more than whites, and greater yielding on difficult task items over easy task items. Extremely high yielding by Negro females produced the Race × Sex interaction and accounted for the two main effects. The Task Difficulty × Race interaction demonstrated a deviation by Negroes from the typical white student pattern of informational behavior in a task oriented setting. The Negro pattern was interpreted as a display of normative behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]