Moore {car} | R Documentation

## Status, Authoritarianism, and Conformity

### Description

The `Moore` data frame has 45 rows and 4 columns. The data are for subjects in a social-psychological experiment, who were faced with manipulated disagreement from a partner of either of low or high status. The subjects could either conform to the partner's judgment or stick with their own judgment.

### Usage

    Moore

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

partner.status

  Partner's status. A factor with levels: `high`, `low`.

conformity

  Number of conforming responses in 40 critical trials.

fcategory

  F-Scale Categorized. A factor with levels (note levels out of order): `high`, `low`, `medium`.

fscore

  Authoritarianism: F-Scale score.

### Source

Moore, J. C., Jr. and Krupat, E. (1971) Relationship between source status, authoritarianism and conformity in a social setting. Sociometry 34, 122–134.

Personal communication from J. Moore, Department of Sociology, York University.

### References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.

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