Resistance to social influence Flashcards
How does social support help resist conformity?
*pressure is reduced if dissenters also do not conform.
*Dissenters do not have to be agreeing with your personal opinion, just not following the majority.
How does social support help resist obediance?
*pressure to obey is reduced if another is disobeying.
E.G.
*Milgrams participants levels of obedience dropped when genuine participants were joined by a disobediant confed.
*dissenters act as ‘models’
*This challenges the legitimacy of authority of auth. figure
What did Rotter say Locus of control was?
The idea and belief that people have control over their own lives
What do people with high internal LOC believe and do?
*thier life is the result of their own behaviour
*they take personal responsibility
Why do people with a high internal LOC resist social influence?
*As they take personal responsibility, they’re more likely to base their decisions off of their own personal beliefs instead of others.
*As they’re more self-confident and achievement orientated, they feel less need for social approval and therefore resist social influence.
AO3: One strength of social support as an explanation of resistance to social influence is that it has research support.
Aschs test, dissenter with good eyesight influenced% of naive participants.
How does this support the role of social support in resisting conformity?
*highlights how social support enables individuals to resist conformity, as they now feel supported by another dissenter.
*when someone else is not conforming, it makes it easier to resist.
social support doesn’t always help, as when the dissenter had thick glasses (suggesting poor eyesight) social resistance was only 36%
What does this suggest?
*even when the dissenter might not’ve been right, they still offer social support to enable others not to conform.
*this model enables them to follow their own conscience, but not as much s if the dissenter could be fully trusted.
how does the role of social support help resist obedience?
Being in a group offers social support to discuss and agree with one another
They may have acted as a model for resisting obedience
social support helps undermine leg. of auth.
Twenge et. al. brought evidence that over time, people have become more resistant to obediance but more external.
Why does this contradict the role of internal /loc in resisting obediance?
*we would have expected that more resistance = internal loc not external.
*expected external LoC to cause less resistance
*goes against the link that internal LoC is an explanation of resistance to social influence.
