Social influence Flashcards

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Situational variables of milgram | Findings

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Baseline-65% Run down office-47.5% Teacher and learner same room-40% Teacher forces learners hand onto plate-30% Experimenter gave order by phone-20.5% Experiment played by member of public-20%

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A mental state where you feel no personal responsibility for your behaviour as you believe you are acting for an authority figure

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A mental state where you can behaviour according to your own principles and are responsible for your own actions

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The move from being autonomous to agentic

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Aspects of the situation that allows the person to ignore the impact of their behaviour and reduce the moral strain they feel E.g blaming the victim/denying the damage

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Explanation of obedience that we are more likely to obey people who we perceive to have authority over us justified by their positioning within the hierarchy

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When the legitimate authority figure uses their power for destructive purpose

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Adorno et al

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2000 middle class white Americans Unconscious attitudes to racial groups F-scale Lie-curt scale

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Those who had authoritarian leaning (scored high) identified with strong people, very conscious of their own and others status Positive correlation between authoritarianism and prejudice

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internalisation identification compliance

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take on the majority view because we accept it as correct leading to a permanent change in behaviour

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a change in a persons behaviour/opinions as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or group

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act in the same way as the group because we value it and want to be part of it but don't necessarily agree with everything

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temporary conformity where we outwardly go along with the majority but privately disagree, behaviour changes while in the presence of the group

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informational social influence | normative social influence

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a cognitive process whereby we agree with the majority as we believe them to be right and want to be right ourselves eg. copying others on a test may lead to internalisation

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an emotional process whereby we agree with the majority as we want to be liked/accepted

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were able to change the behaviour of hotel guests by using printed messages encouraging them to save energy 75% of guests were using fewer towels

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participants asked to give answers to easy and hard maths problems, conformity increased to incorrect answers when questions were harder

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research support- Schultz and Lucas et al | real life application-effects on environment

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individual differences -nAffiliators (NSI) | Asch-some are more likely to conform(ISI)

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123 American male participants in groups of 6-8 were shown a standard line followed by 3 comparison lines confederate gave wrong answer on most trials 75% of naive participants conformed to the wrong answer on at least one trial

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repeated Asch research with engineering students in the uk | only 1 conformed on 369 trials

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conformity increased when majority of the group are friends then with strangers

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repeated Asch's study using 104 Japanese students and put them into same sex groups of 4 and asked them to say their answers out loud participants wore glasses told to prevent glare with participant 3 wearing different glasses making them see different length lines completed questionnaire using questions from Asch's interview 8.2% of the time people saw correct line and answered incorrectly 19.6% of people who saw different lines answered incorrectly with majority being female results of woman were similar to Asch's research with male conformity

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21 healthy male volunteers random allocated roles given uniform after 36 hours-one released due to fits of crying and rage interpersonal relationships deteriorated guards were aggressive finished on 6th day not after 2 weeks all identified with and conformed to roles

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high internal validity-control over variables practical application-altered the way US prisons are run. For example, juveniles accused of federal crimes are no longer housed before trial with adult prisoners

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lack of research support-Reicher and Haslam unrepresentative sample- not generalizable androcentric

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15 men randomly allocated only rule no violence prisoners didn't conform automatically to roles prisoners started to identify and challenge the guards guards failed to identify powershift social identification theory

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40 male participants, volunteer between 20-50 years old participant played teacher teacher asked student questions every wrong answer was given a shock shocks from 15 volts to 450 volts prods give:1- please continue, 2-the experiment requires you to continue, 3- it is absolutely essential that you continue, 4- you have no choice, you must continue all participants debriefed

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no participants stopped below 300 volts 12.5% stopped at 300 volts 65% carried on to highest voltage