Intelligence scores as a function of experimentally established social relationships between child and examiner.

Abstract

"This study . . . constitutes a tentative, experimental examination of the variable of rapport, one of whose purposes is to discover whether or not testing procedure, as it is standardized at present, fully takes this factor into account . . ‥ The conclusions drawn from this were (1) that familiarity with the tester makes a difference, and (2) that within this, the nature of the social relationship between child and examiner is important." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)