Other power-related predictions, however, have not received support. Booth-Butterfield and Jordan (1987) predicted that black women, representing a minority group, would have less power therefore adapt more than white females in interethnic conversations. This predication was not supported. Brown (1981), on the other hand, found that shoppers at a mall are more likely to walk through a black dyad, supporting the power differential assumption of Booth-Butterfield and Jordan. Researchers have to be careful not to equate societal positions with personal power, particularly in dyadic contexts and within cultures low on PD or that encourage individual rather than cultural judgments of power. Gudykunst (1995) suggested that low level egalitarianism of the individual would be associated with a high PD rating for the culture, and high-level egalitarianism of the individual would be associated with a low PD rating for the culture.