Resistance to Social Influence Flashcards
Externality
Individuals that are more tend to believe that their behaviour and experience is caused by event outside of their control
Internality
Individuals who tend to believe they are responsible for their behaviour and experience
Locus of control
People differ in their beliefs about whether the outcome of their actions are dependent on what they do or on events outside of their control
Social support
The perception that an individual has assistance available from other people, and that they are part of a supportive network
Social support - importance of response order
Allen and Levine (1969) found that people are more likely to be influenced by the person answering first in a study where the confederate gives wrong answers in different positions
Social support real world example
Rosenstrasse protest in 1943, where a group of german women protested the Nazis who had Jewish people held captive. The gestapo said they would shoot them, but the women stayed together and they won
Locus of control research support
Avtgis (1998) meta-analysis on the relationship between locus of control and different types of social influence. Higher locus of control were more easily persuaded and influenced
Locus of control - people are more external than they used to be
Twenge et al (2004) found young Americans increasingly believed that their fate was determined more by luck