Social Influence and Social Change

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  • Social Influence and Social Change
    • Minority to majority view
      • 1) Drawing attention to an issue using social proof
      • 2) Consistency in a view
      • 3) Deeper processing
      • 4) The augmentationprinciple
      • 5) The snowball effect
      • 6) Social cryptomnesia
    • Conformity reserach
      • Dissenters make social change more likely
        • Variation in Asch's research: one confederate always gave correct answers
        • Broke the power of the majority, encouraging others to dissent
        • Demonstrates a potential for social change
      • Majority influence and normative social influence
        • Environmental and health campaigns exploit conformity by appealing to NSI
        • Provide information on what others are doing e.g. printing normative messages on bins
        • Social change is encouraged by drawing attention to behaviour of the majority
    • Obedience reserach
      • Disobedient models make change more likely
        • Milgram's research: disobedient models in the variation where confederate refused to give shocks
        • Rate of obedience in genuine participants plummeted
      • Gradual commitment leads to 'drift'
        • Zimbardo (2007): Once a small instruction is obeyed, it is harder to resist a bigger one
        • People 'drift' to a new kind of behaviour

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