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Lecture 3 - conformity Flashcards

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Social influence

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A change in behavior caused by real or imagined pressure

  • Key = some form of bx change
  • intention may or may not play a role
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Types of social influence

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  1. Conformity
  2. Compliance
  3. Obedience
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Conformity

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Behavior change designed to match the behavior of others

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Compliance

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Behavior change that occurs as a result of a direct request

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Obedience

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Compliance that occurs in response to a directive from an authority figure

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Why do ppl conform?

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  1. Informational Social Influence

2. Normative social influence

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Informational social influence

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  • due to a desire to gain information
  • Stronger and more enduring effect (people are internalizing these norms)
  • E.g., Fire alarm goes off – What do you do? You look to others to see what to do
    • Key = ambiguous situation
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Normative social influence

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  • Social influence in which behavior is changed to conform to a social norm
  • Social influence due to a desire to gain rewards and/or avoid punishment
  • NOT ambiguous situation
  • May not internalize norms
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2 factors in normative social infl

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  1. Input from others serves as clue to nature of norm in effect
  2. Size and unanimity of majority informs strength of norm
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Sherif’s (1935) Study of the Development of Social Norms found

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  • A social norm developed in each group
  • Once participants left the group, the norm continued to influence judgments
  • Conformity occurred even when others made extreme judgments
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Autokinetic Effect

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An optical illusion in which a stationary point of light appears to move in a dark room

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Asch’s (1951) Study of Conformity: A Line Judgment Task

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  • Participants conformed to the confederates’ judgments –> 76% conformed at least once
  • When alone - judgments 93% accurate
  • Easier to conform than dissent
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Distortion of perception

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Come to doubt your own senses; Maybe they really agreed with the majority

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Distortion of judgment

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Lacked confidence in their own assessment

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Psychological reactance

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When you feel as though your decision making ability is being threatened, you will react and buck the trend (why ~25% did not conform in Asch’s study)

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Greater conformity observed when:

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  • Task is ambiguous
  • The majority is large (up to about 5)
  • The group is cohesive
  • The majority is unanimous (no “true partner”)
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True partner

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Someone who violates the norm

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Majority and Minority influence - 2-Process Model

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  • Majority influence operates on public level - Works via pressure (Normative Social Influence)
  • Minority influence operates on private level
  • People think deeply about issues- (Informational Social Influence)
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Majority and Minority influence - 1 process model

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  • Social Impact Theory
  • Influence = f(SIN)
  • Nonlinear model
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Social impact theory

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Social influence is a function of strength, immediacy, and number of influential sources

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Cialdini’s (2001) Principles of Compliance

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LASCRASv
•	Reciprocation
•	Commitment/Consistency
•	Social Validation
•	Scarcity
•	Liking
•	Authority
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Reciprocation

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People are willing to comply with requests from those who have provided something first

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Door-in-the-face Technique

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Reciprocation -

- Start with large request (denied), which is then followed by a smaller request

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Perceptual Contrast

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Reciprocation - why it works

- Because the first request was so large and the second so small, the second seems much smaller

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Self-presentation explanation

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Reciprocation - why it works

- You don’t want appear as though you will constantly reject someone

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Commitment/consistency

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People are willing to engage in a behavior if they see it as being consistent with an existing or previously made commitment

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Foot-in-the-door Technique

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Start with a small request and follow that with a larger request
- People want to remain consistent with their response to their initial request

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Why Foot in the door works

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Self-perception theory
perceptual contrast hypothesis
Thoughts processes of recipients

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Thoughts processes of recipients

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Works better if people have a higher need for cognitive consistency

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Lowball technique

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After people agree to an initial request then there all these additional things that must be completed with the request

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Social validation

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  • People are willing to engage in a behavior if they see evidence that others (particularly similar others) are engaging in the behavior
    E.g., Suicides (rates usually increase after a public suicide
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Scarcity

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  • People find objects and opportunities attractive If they are scarce, rare, or dwindling in availability
    E.g., Advertisement (“Limited time offer”)
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Liking/friendship

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People prefer to say yes to people they know and like

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Authority

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People are willing to follow the directions or recommendations of someone they view as an authority

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Destructive obedience

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Obedience that results in behavior counter to accepted standards of moral behavior

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Eichmann’s Fallacy

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The belief that evil deeds are only done by evil people

- Milgram disproved this

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4 roots of evil deeds

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  1. Instrumentality
  2. Threatened Egotism
  3. Idealism
  4. Sadism
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Instrumentality

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→ Violence is used to achieve some end state

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Threatened egoism

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→ Violence is used to restore pride/honor

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Idealism

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→ Violence used to achieve good

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Sadism

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→ Violence is used because it is good

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3 other roots

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  1. Difficult Life Conditions
  2. Cultural and Personal Preconditions
    - Terror Management Theory
  3. Social-Political Organization
    - Totalitarian/Authoritarian regimes that institute segregation
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Stanley Milgram’s (1963) Study of Obedience

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  • Each time the learner gives an incorrect response, the teacher must give him a shock (increasing in 15 volt intervals – 15 to 450 volts)
    • Foot-In-The-Door Technique
  • Results –> No one exited the study before 300 volts, 65% of participants completed the study
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Factors Affecting Obedience

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  1. Baseline (65%)
  2. Proximity of Victim -
    - In same room (40%);
    - Touch victim (30%)
  3. Location of Experiment
    - Run down office (48%)
  4. Authority Figure
    - “Average Joe” experimenter (20%)
    - Proximity: Experimenter gives orders by phone (10%)
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Why did so many people obey?

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o Foot-in-the-Door Technique
o Reciprocation (for money)
o Experimenter claimed responsibility

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Are Milgram’s Findings Generalizable?

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  • Conceptual replications
    Eg The Nurse Study (Hofling et al., 1966)
  • Cross-cultural replications
  • Stability of findings over time

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