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The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group.

Aronson, Elliot, Mills, Judson·1959·The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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IT is a frequent observation that persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort. For example, one would expect persons who travel a great distance to see a motion picture to be more impressed with it than those who see the same picture at a neighborhood theater. By the same token, individuals who go through a severe initiation to gain admission to a club or organization should tend to think more highly of that organization than those who do not go through the severe initiation to gain admission. Two questions are relevant here: 1. Is this "common observation " valid, that is, does it hold true when tested under cotrolled conditions? 2. If the observation is valid, how can it be accounted for? The relationship might be simply a result of differences in initial motivation. To take the case of initiations, persons who initially have a strong desire to join a particular club should be more willing to undergo unpleasantness to gain admission to it than persons who are low in initial interest. Therefore, a club that requires a severe initiation for admission should be joined only by those people with a strong desire to become members. On the other hand, a club that does not require a severe initiation should be joined by some individuals who like it very much, and by others who are relatively uninterested. Because of this self-selection, one would expect persons who are members of clubs with severe initiations to think more highly of their club, on the average, than members of clubs without severe initiations. But is there something in the initiation itself

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Authors: Aronson, E., & Mills, J.
Affiliations: Stanford University (US)
Venue: The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 1959-09
Volume: 59
Issue: 2
Pages: 177-181
ISSN: 0096-851X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1037/h0047195
OpenAlex: W2037252822
Cited by: 1,297
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 27 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 117 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 62 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 38 · 2014: 51 · 2013: 51 · 2012: 35
FWCI: 39.79
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychology of Social Influence
Keywords: initiation, group preferences, self-selection, initial motivation, group membership

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The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group.

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