The effects of social and spatial density upon attraction, crowding, task performance, and mood

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dc.contributor.authorPoe, Donald Bryceen
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:36:49Zen
dc.date.adate2010-06-02en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:36:49Zen
dc.date.issued1975en
dc.date.rdate2010-06-02en
dc.date.sdate2010-06-02en
dc.description.abstractMales placed in one of two room sizes and one of two group sizes engaged in several group discussions, performed anagrams tasks, and served as members of a mock jury. Results indicated that subjects liked each other more in small groups than in large groups, that subjects in large rooms reported feeling more negative emotions than those in small rooms, that subjects felt more crowded in small rooms than in large ones, and that small rooms contained more information than large ones. Subjects performed better on the anagrams tasks, liking for group members increased, and reports of negative emotive feelings decreased as the experiment progressed. Results have theoretical and methodological implications since (1) social density is shown to be different than spatial density, (2) there are time-dependent effects, (3) "crowding" as an intervening variable cannot mediate observed effects of social density, and (4) subjects in the large. group, large room condition showed the greatest number of deleterious effects of treatment. Various theoretical mechanisms and their applicability to the present study are discussed.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentvi, 103 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06022010-020238en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06022010-020238/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42846en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1975.P633.pdfen
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dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1975.P633en
dc.titleThe effects of social and spatial density upon attraction, crowding, task performance, and mooden
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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