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Consistent and inconsistent status characteristics and the determination of power and prestige orders.

This investigation is addressed to the following problem: given that the members of a task-oriented group are differentiated with respect to two or more status characteristics instrumental to their task, how is the distribution of these characteristics related to the group's power and prestige order? A theoretical analysis of this problem leads us to the more general issue of how expectations are formed in multi-characteristic task situations. In this paper we formulate two alternative mechanisms-a "balancing" mechanism and a "combining" mechanism-which may be operating in such situations. We also report the results of an experiment specifically designed to discriminate between these mechanisms. The results of this experiment provide support for the combining mechanism formulation.