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
- Schank & Abelson (1977)
- Case studies around Conformity
- Deutsh & Gerad(1955);Berkowitz (2004)
- 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
- Reicher & Haslam (2006)
- 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
- Sherif (1935)
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