“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.”

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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