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Neural bases of situational context effects on social perception
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
USA
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In the 1960s, the television show Candid Camera produced a segment in which an unsuspecting target individual enters an elevator filled with one or more confederates working with the show. The confederates would collectively stand all facing the back or the side of the elevator rather than facing front. The target invariably would have a quick look around at the others and then change his orientation in order to fall in line with them. Sometimes, after this initial display of conformity, the confederates would all turn and face a new direction only to have the target change along with them. In one clip, a target removes