Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Author "Ford, Joan Butler"

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    • A Test of the Law of Anticipated Reactions 
      Ford, Joan Butler; Zelditch, Morris Jr (Social Psychological Quarterly, 1988)
      a. This WP continues investigations in WP 84-3 and 84-10. The authors report an experiment in which they varied the expected likelihood that an advantaged central actor would punish others for attempting to change an ...
    • Uncertainty, Potential Power, and Nondecisions 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Ford, Joan Butler (Transaction Publishers, 1985)
      The authors develop a definition of potential power—what an actor could to another actor if the first cared strongly enough about something—and explore its properties. Experimental research shows that potential power affects ...
    • Why Do Individuals Nondecide under Uncertainty? 
      Ford, Joan Butler; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      a. This WP continues the investigation in WP 84-3. There, they found that influence accepted by an actor S was negatively related to a central person’s (C) power even if S did not know how C’s preferences or how likely C ...