Conformity Explanations
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- Created on: 18-05-14 17:55
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- Conformity Explanations
- Asch's Study
- After experiment, participants asked why
- Not to stand out by looking stupid
- Not to be an outcast
- Not to spoil experiment
- Inaccurate perception due to positioning
- Give a good impression of themselves
- Showed they were responding to group norms
- Compliance
- Public agreement, private disagreement
- Conform to majority
- Only lasts as long as group pressure
- Public agreement, private disagreement
- Compliance
- After experiment, participants asked why
- Normative Social Influence
- Conforming due to need for social approval
- To be respected, not rejected from others
- Results in public agreement, but unchanged private opinion
- Compliance
- Public agreement, private disagreement
- Conform to majority
- Only lasts as long as group pressure
- Public agreement, private disagreement
- Explains conformity in unambiguous situations
- Conforming due to need for social approval
- Informational Social Influence
- Conforming due to feeling the group knows better
- To fulfil need to be right and be confident
- Internalisation
- Agreeing both publically and privately
- Belief remains when group pressure removed
- Agreeing both publically and privately
- Often when people are uncertainty, possibly due to difficulty
- Explains conformity in ambiguous situations
- Conforming due to feeling the group knows better
- Asch's Study
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