Social Influence

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  • Social Influence
    • Explanation for Obedience
      • dispositional factors - authoritarian personality: Adorno
      • Situational variables - Milgram
    • Conformity types
      • Compliance e.g school, work - not private views
      • Internalisation - often result of minority influence, holds views publically and privately
      • Identification - fangirls + boys of celebrities
    • Conformity studies and/or experiments
      • Asch
      • Zimbardo
    • Explanations for Conformity
      • Normative social influence - interview after Asch's stufy revealed ppts feared they would look strange if they gave diff. answer
      • Informative social influence - ambiguous situation leads to fear of giving the wrong answer
      • People identify to social roles - Zimbardo
    • Conformity: roles in Social Change
      • Normative social influence: environmental campaigns, weigh loss
        • Nolan et al
      • Minority influence: women's right, racial equality
    • Resistance to Social Influence
      • High internals (LOC)
        • Holland - 37% internals did not continue to highest shock level compared to 23% (Milgram)
      • Dissenters and disobedient people in Milgram and Asch's study
    • Obedience studies and/or experiments
      • Milgram - every factor
      • Bickman - uniform
      • Kilham and Mann - Milgram in Australia
      • Hofling et al and Rank & Jacobson - nurses study
    • Minority influence
      • CCF processes that lead to snowball effect which leads to law and policy changes
      • Moscovici  et al

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