PSYA2: Social Influence

SOCIAL INFLUENCE 

• Conformity to majority influence 
• Evaluating research into conformity
• Conformity to minority influence 
• Explanations of why people conform 
• Obedience to authority 
• Evaluating research into obedience to authority 
• Explanations of why people obey 

SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

• Independent behaviour: Resisting social influence 
• Individual differences in independent behaviour
• Implications for social change 

SOCIAL INFLUENCE 

- Types of conformity, including internalisation and compliance 

- Explanations of why people conform, including informational social influence and normative social influence 

- Obedience, including Milgram's work 

- Explanations of why people obey

SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE 

- Explanations of independent behaviour, including how people resist pressures to conform and pressures to obey authority 

- The influence of individual differences on independent behaviour 

- Implications for social change of research into social influence