Research Support for ISI

Cards (2)

  • Wittenbrink and Henley (1996)
    Found that participants exposed to a negative information about African Americans (which they were lead to believe was the view of the majority) later reported negative beliefs about a black individual.
  • Jenness (1932)
    He gave participants a task with no clear answer: estimating how many jelly beans were in a jar. He found individual estimates moved toward the estimates of others, showing that they had genuinely believed these estimates.