Social support

Question 1

What is social support?

Answer 1

-The presence of other people who resist the pressure to conform or obey, and therefore, help others to do the same as them- actors role models, who show others that resistance to social influence is possible

Question 2

what does the presence of support from someone else make it easier to do and why?

Answer 2

-To resist social pressures as the individual feels more confident in their own decision, and therefore more confident to reject the majority position if someone else is doing it too

Question 3

what does having an ally who shares the individuals view do and what does this mean?

Answer 3

breaks the unanimity of the group- once the unanimous position of the majority is broken, others are freed up to think, respond or behave in a different way to the majority

Question 4

what does having a disobedient role model who exists the pressure to obey do?

Answer 4

Just legitimacy of the authority figure