Social Change Flashcards
What do Allen and Levine support?
Social support as an explanation for resistance to social influence.
Supporting evidence for social support?
Allen and Levine.
Describe Allen and Levine.
Replicated Asch’s dissenter variation, but the dissenter wore thick-rimmed glasses and stated that they had bad vision. However, participants still had low conformity to the majority due to the dissenter’s support.
What does Holland support?
Locus of control as an explanation for resistance to social influence.
Supporting evidence for locus of control?
Holland.
Describe Holland.
Replicated Milgram’s study, and measured whether the participants were internal or external. Internals disobeyed 37% of times, 23% for externals.
What does Twenge et al. contradict?
Locus of control as an explanation for resistance to social influence.
Contradictory evidence for locus of control?
Twenge et al.
Describe Twenge et al.
Analysed 40 years of studies into locus of control, finding that people are becoming both more external, and more resistant to authority.
Supporting evidence for consistency?
Moscovici.
What does Moscovici support?
Importance of consistency in minority influence.
What were Moscovici’s findings?
With a consistent minority, conformity was 8.42%. With an inconsistent minority, conformity was 1.25%.
What does Nemeth support?
Importance of flexibility in minority influence.
Supporting evidence for flexibility?
Nemeth.
Describe Nemeth.
Participants discussed in groups of three with one confederate what compensation ski-lift victims should receive. When the confederate was flexible, the group were more likely to conform and compromise.
What does Bashir et al. contradict?
Social influence processes in social change.
Contradictory evidence for social change?
Bashir et al.
Describe Bashir et al.
Found that people may resist social influence even if they agree with the cause, due to negative stigmas about the group.
