Zusammenfassung der Ressource
resistance to social influence
- social support
- conformity
- pressure to conform is reduced if other people do not conform
- Asch
- even if the person doesn't agree with you but goes
against the group - acts as a model
- effect not long lasting as if the person then agrees with the group so will the participant
- obedience
- pressure to obey reduced if others do not obey
- Milgram
- obedience dropped to 10% when the
participant was joined with a confederate
- again do not have to agree but frees up their own conscience
- locus of control
- Rotter
- internal vs external control
- internal
- control their own destiny
- external
- do not have control
- continuum
- as well as high internal/ external you
can be in the middle
- resistance to social influence
- internal
- resist pressures to conform / obey
- more self confident
- more achievement orientated
- higher intelligence
- less need for social approval
- evaluation - social support
- research support - conformity
- Allen & Levine
- conformity decreased when someone disagreed (in an Asch like study)
- even when the person who disagreed wore glasses - couldn't judge line length
- supports that resistance isn't just to follow what
someone says but frees up your own opinion
- research support - obedience
- Gamson
- higher levels of resistance than Milgram
- participants were in groups
- 29 out of 33 (88%) rebelled
- peer support = greater resistance
- evaluation - locus of control
- research support
- Holland
- repeated Milgram's baseline study
- measured whether people were internal or external
- 37% internals did not go all the way
- 23% externals did not go all the way
- increases validity
- contradictory research
- Twenge
- analysed data from American studies over 40 years
- found people have become more external however more resistant to obedience
- however this could be due to a change I society
- evaluation +
- limited role of loc
- Rotter found that the role of loc may have been exaggerated
- it has little influence in familiar situations
(previous experience will be more important)