Resistance to social influence
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 21-04-19 16:01
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- Resistance to social influence
- Social support
- The perception of assistance and solidarity available from others
- Dissenters provide moral support that free someone from giving the correct answer
- Early social support is more influential
- Locus of control
- External LoC - things turn out the way they do regardless of their own actions (external forces)
- The extent to which individuals believe that they can control events in their lives
- Internal LoC - they affect the outcomes of situations
- Research supporting LoC
- Moghaddam (1998) Japanese conform easier than Americans, higher external LoC
- Suggests LoC is a universal concept
- Avtgis (1998) Higher internal LoC less persuaded and likely to conform
- Moghaddam (1998) Japanese conform easier than Americans, higher external LoC
- Research supporting **
- Allen and Levine (1971) Presence of dissenter reduced conformity in visual task, even when wearing thick glasses
- Asch (1956) Dissenter answers correctly earlier, conformity drops from 32% to 5.5%
- Dissents later then drops to 8.5%
- Social support
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