Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing

active leader apartment positions apathetic approximate physical distance behavior biased sample cent level choices given choices received clique column court or building determine Deviates and Conformers ecological factors effect end apartments existence expect face-to-face group favorable fewer choices field study floor friends functional distance group standards group structure homogeneity housing project hypotheses important in-court inactive individual influence informal interviewing interest isolation item of information Kurt Back Leon Festinger living in Westgate lower-floor major matrix multiplication means meetings middle apartment mutual choices neighbors number of choices observation organiza organization participant observation passive contacts person possible choices process of communication question relationship relevant residents of Westgate result rumor sample social groups sociometric choices sociometric patterns specific spread squared matrix stairway standardized interview Stanley Schachter Table techniques tenants tion Tolman Court Total number two-step connections unfavorable unfavorable-inactive upper-floor Westgate and Westgate Westgate Council Westgate courts Westgate housing Westgate West building