Social influence 2 Flashcards
Psychopathic personality _________ claimed that the obedience shown by some of Milgram’s participants was a scoially acceptable way of expressing their psychopathic impulses
Miale and Selzer
In this variation of Asch’s study the participant publicly gave his judgement before any of the confederates who then all gave the wring answer when offered a chance to change their answer most didn’t change
Deutsch and Gerard
One group of American students were led to believe that their more important attitudes were difference from those of 10,000 other students. Antoher group was told that their most important attitudes were nearly idenitical to 10,000 pther students . so stufrnys who were stipped of their IF resisted pressures to conform
Snyder and Fromkin
Suggests the females may appear less independent dut to the way that they have been socialised. Women are taught to be supportive and agreeable.
Eagly
Found not significant difference btween genders. Although they did conclude that there may be gender differences for specific aspect of locus of control. For exaple, they found thgat men have a greater internal locus of control for matters relating to academic achievement
Schultz & Schultz
Year women could vote
IN 1918 women were given imited rihts to votes and in 1928 these were extended to the level of men’s rights
How minority influence works by creating attention- deviant minorities draw attention to the issues that may otherwise have been ignored by the majority. They stimulate thought so that overtime people may be converted to a new way of thinking and behaving
Nemeth
used the film twelve angry men in a study where participants has to role play the part of jurors they red a summary of the court case presented in the film and they were given the jury’s discussions about key pieces of evidence. They has to decide whether the accused was innocent or guilty. However, Clark gave difference groups of participants difference version of the jury discussion particularly manipulating the arguments of the minority jury member and whether any of the other jurors were influences to change their view
HE FOUND THAT PARTICIPANTS WERE MOST PERSUADED WHEN THEY HEARD CONSISTENT PERSUASIVE ARGUMENTS FROM THE MINORITY JURY MEMBER. THEY WERE ALSO MORE PERSUADED WHEN THEY LEARNED THAT ANOTHER JUROR HAS DEFECTED FROM THE MAJORITY POSITION TO GO ALONG WITH THE MINORITY GROUP
Clark
Argues that many acts of terrorism and intended to bring about social change thought minority influence
Kruglanski
Places door hangers on the doors of san diego residents one a week for amonth- four messages one states that the mority of their neighbourts refularly tried to conserve enegy according to a prior survery. Also control group whos hanger encouraged energy conservation but provided no rationale fo this. Only those with the message regarding their neighbours usage significsntly decreased their own energy consumption
Nolan et al
Compared impact of four types of door hangers on hotel room doors- on card had message “join your fellow citizens in helping to save the environment followed by information that the majority of hotel guests did reuse their towels. The others had general messages such as ‘ help save the environment reuse your towels’ compared to the general message the first message increased towel reuse by an average of 34%
Goldstein
