80 high- and low-dogmatic women read a communication which was either attributed to an expert or to a high school student. As predicted, high-dogmatic Ss agreed more with the communication when given by the high-authority source than by the low-authority source. Low-dogmatic Ss were not differentially influenced by the authority of the communicator. In addition, high-dogmatic Ss who received the communication from the low-authority source were less influenced than high-dogmatics who had not been exposed to the communication and low-dogmatics who received the same communication from the same source.
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