抄録
This experiment was conducted to assess the influence of respose patterns of revolters on conformity. The subjects were 39 undergraduate students who were given an opinion task for 12 trials. They were divided into the successive and intermittent revolution conditions, in which revolters emerged from the group successively after consensus trials and intermittently, respectively. Under the successive revolution condition the conformity rate on revolter-emergent trials were significantly lower than that for consensus trials, while under the intermittent revolution condition the conformity rates on revolter-emergent trials and on consensus trials were not significantly different. After the experiment the subjects were asked to indicate their private opinions. Subjects in the successive revolution condition indicated fewer conforming opinions than those in the intermittent revolution condition, It was concluded that with the same number of revolters and of revolutions effects of revolters vary according to their emergence pattern.
