SLT: Resistance to Social Influence Flashcards

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How does social support help resisting conformity?

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The fact that another person is not following the majority enables a person to feel free to follow their own conscience. Their dissent gives rise to more dissent because it shows the majority is no longer unanimous

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How does social support help resisting obedience?

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Pressure to obey can be resisted when another person is seen to disobey. The other persons disobedient acts as a ‘model’ of dissent for the participant to copy and this frees him to act from his own conscience - This disobedient model challenges the legitimacy of the authority figure making it easier for others to disobey.

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What is locus of control?

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The way an individual believes life works

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People with a high internal locus of control…

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Are more likely to resist pressures to conform and obey.

  • Decisions are made on personal beliefs and are more resistant to pressures of others
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Why are people with high locus of control more likely to resist?

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  • They are more self-confident and are more achievement orientated, have higher intelligence and less need for social approval
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Shute (1975) research into LOC and resisting conformity

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  • Students exposed to tohers who expressed a pro drug attitude. They were then asked about their own attitudes towards drugs.
  • Those with internal LOC conformed less to expressing pro drug attitudes
  • They were less influenced, showing they are more independent than an external LOC
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Jones and Kavanagh (1996) research into LOC and resisting obedience

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Found that individuals with low external locus of control were more able to resist obeying immoral authority figures.

  • Suggests an explanation for corporate fraud, where lower-status workers with high external locus of control are more susceptible to obeying orders to perform illegal actions.
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