Resistance To Social Influence

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What is social support?
Social support is a situational explanation for resistance to social influence which suggests that the presence of people who resist pressures to conform or obey can help others to do the same.
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What study shows the role of social support in resisting conformity?
Asch (1955) found that when there was a dissenter who gave the correct answer, conformity rates decreased from 32% to 5.5% and when the dissenter disagreed with the genuine participant, conformity dropped to 9%.
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How does social support allow people to resist conformity?
The dissenter shows that the majority is no longer unanimous and provides social support by modelling independent behaviour, enabling the participant to follow their own conscience.
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What study shows the role of social support in resisting obedience?
In a variation of Milgram’s experiment, obedience rates dropped from 65% to 10% when the participant was joined by a disobedient confederate.
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How does social support allow people to resist obedience?
Dissenters act as a model of independent behaviour which challenges the legitimacy of the authority figure, making it easier for others to disobey.
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What are the strengths of social support?
Social support has real-world research support for its role in resisting conformity and there is research support for its role in resisting obedience.
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Which study supports the role of social support in resisting conformity?
Albrecht et al (2006) evaluated Teen Fresh Start USA, a programme to help adolescents to resist peer pressure to smoke, where teens who had a 'buddy' were less likely to smoke than a control group.
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Which study supports the role of social support in resisting obedience?
Gamson et al (1982) asked participants to produce evidence that would help an oil company run a smear campaign and found high levels of disobedience (88%) in their study due to the fact that the participants were in groups to discuss their orders.
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Which study proposed locus of control as an explanation of resistance to social influence?
Rotter (1966) proposed locus of control to explain individual differences in conformity and obedience.
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What is locus of control?
Locus of control refers to the extent to which someone believes they have personal control over their lives. Internals believe that they are responsible for what happens to them and externals believe it is a matter of luck or other outside influences.
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What makes people with a high internal locus of control able to resist social influence?
Internals are more able to resist social influence because they take personal responsibility for their decisions, thus relying less on the opinions of others. They are also more self-confident and achievement-oriented which makes them more likely to take
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What are the strengths of locus of control?
There is research to support the effect of locus of control on conformity and obedience.
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What research supports the effect of locus of control on obedience?
Holland (1967) repeated Milgram’s baseline study and measured the participants’ locus of control and found that internals had a higher disobedience rate (37%) than externals (23%).
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What research supports the effect of locus of control on conformity?
Avtgis (1998) conducted a meta-analysis into studies investigating the effect of locus of control on conformity and found that those with a higher external locus of control were easier persuaded and more likely to conform than those with an internal locus
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What are the limitations of locus of control?
There is research to challenge the effect of locus of control on obedience and locus of control may be an incomplete explanation for resistance to social influence.
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Which study challenges the effect of locus of control on obedience?
Twenge et al (2004) analysed data from 40 years of American locus of control studies and found that people became more resistant to obedience but also more external.
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Which study suggests that locus of control is a limited explanation of resistance to social influence?
Rotter (1982) argues that locus of control may not be the most important factor as it only affects new situations. If you have conformed or obeyed in a specific situation in the past, it is likely that you will do so again regardless of whether you have a
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