Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PSYCHOLOGY - SOCIAL INFLUENCE
- TYPES OF CONFORMITY AND EXPLANATIONS FOR CONFORMITY
- TYPES OF CONFORMITY
- EXPLANATIONS FOR CONFORMITY
- Normative Social Influence - conformity based on the desire for approval
- More likely to occur when individual believes they are under surveillance by the group
- EVALUATION
- Difficulties distinguishing between compliance and internalisation
- Research support for normative influence, e.g. smoking take-up (Linkenbach and Perkins)
- Research support for informational influence, e.g. attitudes about African Americans (Wittenbrink and Henley)
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- Nolan et al. - people underestimate the impact of normative influence on their behaviour
- Informational influence is moderated by type of task (Laughlin)
- VARIABLES AFFECTING CONFORMITY
- KEY STUDY (ASCH, 1956)
- VARIABLES AFFECTING CONFORMITY
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- CONFORMITY TO SOCIAL ROLES
- KEY STUDY: THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
- BBC PRISON STUDY (REICHER AND HASLAM)
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- RESEARCH ON OBEDIENCE
- KEY STUDY: MILGRAM (1963)
- SITUATIONAL FACTORS IN OBEDIENCE
- EVALUATION
- Ethical issues due to deception and lack of informed consent
- Internal validity - Orne and Holland claim many participants saw through the deception
- Individual differences - 8 out of 9 replications found no gender differences in obedience (Blass)
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- External validity - the obedience alibi (Mandel)
- EXPLANATIONS FOR OBEDIENCE
- THE AGENTIC STATE
- LEGITIMACY OF AUTHORITY
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY
- THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY
- KEY STUDY: ELMS AND MILGRAM (1966)
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- RESISTANCE TO SOCIAL INFLUENCE
- SOCIAL SUPPORT
- LOCUS OF CONTROL
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- MINORITY INFLUENCE
- MINORITY INFLUENCE AND BEHAVIOURAL STYLE
- KEY STUDY: MOSCOVICI ET AL. (1969)
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION
- SOCIAL INFLUENCE PROCESSES IN SOCIAL CHANGE
- SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH MINORITY INFLUENCE
- SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH MAJORITY INFLUENCE
- EVALUATION
- FURTHER EVALUATION