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Two studies investigated the effect of four incentives for participation (no-mention, volunteer, paid, required) on college students' estimates of their own compliance (Self) and of most other subjects' compliance (Others), in the Orne demand-characteristics situation and the Milgram obedience situation. Students estimated that they would be more compliant than others in the Orne situation but less compliant in the Milgram situation. They also estimated higher compliance for paid and required participation than for no-mention and voluntary participation, for Self and Others, in the Orne situation; and for Others in the Milgram situation, where estimated compliance for Self was uniformly low in all four incentive conditions.

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Effect of Subjects' Incentives for Participation on Estimated Compliance for Self and Others

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