A Study on Acceptance-Rejection of a Suggestion : An experimental study on mediators of a suggestion

P(論文)"In this study, credibility of the suggestor's ability in a certain field is assumed to be a large factor in acceptance rejection of a suggestion. According to the design of this experiment, the source of a suggestion is hidden from suggestees, so the suggestion must be communicated by a mediator. In such a case, the influence of a mediator upon suggestees has to be checked. The role of a mediator was taken by a graduate course student and the suggestees were lower secondary schoolboys and girls. The findings showed that the higher the degree of credibility grew, the higher the degree and the strength of acceptance became, and influence of the mediator was not so much large during the process of creating credibility, but the effect of the mediator's existence in such an experiment has to be examined by the following new devised experiment."departmental bulletin pape