"When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range."
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Leon Festinger and John Thibaut. "Interpersonal communication in small groups." The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 46.1 (1951): 92.
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John Thibaut
John Walter Thibaut (1917 - Feb. 19, 1986) was an American social psychologist, and Professor of Psychology at the . He was one of the last graduate students of Kurt Lewin, and the first editor of the '.
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