Case studies around Conformity R.A

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  • Eagly & Carli (1981)
    • Analysed 148 conformity studies and found males and females differed where audiences created group pressure
  • Eagly (1987)
    • Women are more likely to conform because they don't like group conflict
    • Show different levels of conformity due to different social roles
    • Men are less likely to conform because they're expected to show independence and assertiveness
  • Orlando 1973
    • 51 staff members with 29 as mock patients
    • Looked at how people conformed to roles given to them in a mock psychiatric ward-active for 3 days
    • Mock patients quickly conformed to their roles, admitted to feeling lost and showed signs of withdrawal & depression- 6 tried to escape
    • Gave an insight into real patients' experiences in a psychiatric ward-influenced hospital staff to empathize more with patients
  • Participants who were more confident in completing the task were less likely to conform
    • Wisenthal et Al(1976)
  • Schank & Abelson (1977)
    • A script is a person's knowledge about the sequence of events expected in a specific setting
  • A social role is a pattern of behaviour that is expected of a person in a given setting or group
    • Hare (2003)
  • A social norm is a group's expectation of what is appropriate and acceptable behavior for it's members-how they're supposed to behave & think
    • Deutsh & Gerad(1955);Berkowitz (2004)
      • Case studies around Conformity
        • Schank & Abelson (1977)
          • A script is a person's knowledge about the sequence of events expected in a specific setting
        • Orlando 1973
          • 51 staff members with 29 as mock patients
          • Looked at how people conformed to roles given to them in a mock psychiatric ward-active for 3 days
          • Mock patients quickly conformed to their roles, admitted to feeling lost and showed signs of withdrawal & depression- 6 tried to escape
          • Gave an insight into real patients' experiences in a psychiatric ward-influenced hospital staff to empathize more with patients
        • Eagly (1987)
          • Women are more likely to conform because they don't like group conflict
          • Show different levels of conformity due to different social roles
          • Men are less likely to conform because they're expected to show independence and assertiveness
        • Hare (2003)
        • Eagly & Carli (1981)
          • Analysed 148 conformity studies and found males and females differed where audiences created group pressure
        • Wisenthal et Al(1976)
        • Sherif (1935)
          • Tried to show that people conform to group norms when they're performing an ambiguous task
          • Showed particpants a dot of light which was actually an illusion and asked them to guess how far the light moved
          • In phase 3- participants' guesses were closer to group guesses
          • Influenced by informational social influence
        • Perrin & Spencer (1980)
          • Repeated  Asch's experiment on engineering students
          • Engineering( and maths and chem) students have more experience with lines
          • Conformity levels were lower- possibly they were more confident
          • Only one out of 396 trials did an observer join the erroneous majority.
          • The Asch effect was a "child of its time."
        • Reicher & Haslam (2006)
          • Zimbardo-like experiment
          • The guards did not conform or form a group so failed. whilst inmates formed a strong idenitity
          • Compliance, stress & depression levels measured with an ethics committee
          • The prisoners found out they couldnt become guards and rebelled- stopped on day 6 by EC due to stress levels
  • Mock prison with 5 guards 10 inmates ,filmed for broadcasting
    • Reicher & Haslam (2006)
      • Zimbardo-like experiment
      • The guards did not conform or form a group so failed. whilst inmates formed a strong idenitity
      • Compliance, stress & depression levels measured with an ethics committee
      • The prisoners found out they couldnt become guards and rebelled- stopped on day 6 by EC due to stress levels
  • They were tested in three phases:Alone , then in groups, then alone again
    • Sherif (1935)
      • Tried to show that people conform to group norms when they're performing an ambiguous task
      • Showed particpants a dot of light which was actually an illusion and asked them to guess how far the light moved
      • In phase 3- participants' guesses were closer to group guesses
      • Influenced by informational social influence

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