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Unit 11; Influence of Others Flashcards

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Co-Actor

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Another individual performing the same task

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Audience

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A group watching an individuals performance

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Social Facilitation theory

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Zajonc

Presence of co-actors / audience = increased arousal to improve performance on well practiced (simple) tasks

Presence of co-actors / audience = hinders performance on complex tasks

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Social Learning Theory

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We learn appropriate behaviors by modeling and imitating the behavior of others.
- no explicit reinforcement

Example: Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment

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Learning aggression

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Witnessing violence (bobo or TV) may desensitize us / habituate us to it

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Sherif’s autokinetic effect

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Imagine movement that never occurred

Individuals adjust their opinions based on others’ beliefs. = you believe it moves further

Subjects gradually conformed to others’ opinion, regardless of starting point

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Asch

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Compare lines to sample
- confederated make up majority + say obviously wrong answer
- real participant comforms and agrees with them

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Normative function

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  • conform due to a fear of rejection
  • avoiding ridicule
  • proven by Asch

Ex. fashion trends and memes.

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Informational function

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Behavior of others provides information about an ambiguous situation.

  • conforming due to not knowing how to act
  • gaining info
  • supported by Sherif’s autokinetic effect
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Deutsch’s study

ASCD

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Similar to Asch’s but with anonymous answers, still shows doubt + conformity

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Group polarization

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Group decisions strengthen original inclinations of individual group members
- more extreme

ex. juries, politics, niche interest groups

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Groupthink

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aka mob mentality

A group decision making environment that occurs when group cohesiveness becomes so strong it overrides realistic appraisals of reality and alternative opinions.

  • think they’re unquestionably right
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Avoid groupthink

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  • be impartial
  • critical evaluation “devils advocate”
  • subdivide the group
  • provide a second chance
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The bystander effect

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think Kitty Genovese

The presence of other witnesses diffuses responsibility to act

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Pluralistic ignorance

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When each individual in a group sees nobody responding in a given situation, they conclude the situation isn’t an emergency

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Diffusion of responsibility

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In deciding whether we have to act, we determine that someone else in the group is more QUALIFIED (skilled)

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Reducing bystander effect

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  • be direct when asking for help
  • seeing others be helpful = more likely to help others in the future (ex. “priming” the tip jar)
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Social loafing

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Individuals are less motivated when working in a group than when working alone

(even in a perceived larger group)

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Milgram’s experiment

and %

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65% of participants continue shocking till the end (even though dangerous)

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Obedience

who do we show it to

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We show strong obedience, even to minimally powerful authority figures

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Predicting our own behaviour

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Not very good at it

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Things that affect obedience

- in Milgram’s study

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  • appearance of scientist (attire)
  • teacher / learner proximity (far = feel less bad)
  • teacher / experimenter proximity (close = feel more pressure)

not much effect by location/prestige of institution

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Cognitive dissonance

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Conflict when behaviour doesn’t accurately reflect our attitudes
= psychological discomfort

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Reducing cognitive dissonance

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  1. Adjust beliefs to justify actions (ex. maybe it actually wasn’t so bad)
  2. Overjustification effect: justification by some external means (ex. payment)
    = attitude doesn’t change
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Deindividuation

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Anonymity; loss of a sense of personal responsibility and restraint in a GROUP setting

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Persuasion, similarity or credibility more important?

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Similarity -> lifestyle choices
Credibility -> objective facts

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Sounding persuasive

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  • eye contact
  • concise speech
  • fast-ish speed
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Framing (one vs two sided)

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Audience initially agrees = use one-sided argument

Audience initially disagrees = use two-sided argument

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Central appeal

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Academic audiences

Use well reasoned, factual, two-sided arguments

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Peripheral appeal

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Non-academic audiences

Use well presented, easy to understand messages

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Foot-in-door

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Make progressive series of requests

= every request is considered in relation to the previous request (not the first)

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Low-ball technique

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Change / escalate the terms of an agreement after someone has already agreed to comply
(make them think they can’t back out)

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The sunk cost trap

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Unrecoverable investments lead to further investment

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Ben Franklin effect

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Convince someone who has negative feelings towards you to complete a favour

= cognitive dissonance

= convince yourself they’re not too bad

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Self-perception

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We don’t necessarily have special insight into ourselves. Sometimes we have to figure out by assessing our own behaviour.

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The communicator

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The individual delivering a message

  • their trustworthiness matters
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The message

when is it most effective

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One or two sided

  • most effective when it makes the audience feel good
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The audience

academic vs. non-academic

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Academic
- Want to make the decision themselves
or

Nonacademic
- Appreciate a good communicator to “give it to them straight”

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Other ways to persuade (needs, quality, luxury)

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Needs (or perceived needs)
- more compelling than wants

Insinuate good quality (ex. “natural”)

Advertising luxury
- opposite of appealing to needs
- cost up = appeal up

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Normative social influences

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We want to be approved of by the people we associate with.

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The risky shift (in groups)

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People make more daring decisions when they are in groups than when alone

Determined to be due to group polarization

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The norm of reciprocity

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We are expected to reciprocate when someone else treats us well

  • we return favours
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The norm of social responsibility

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As a member of society, we are expected to contribute to its welfare in a positive way

44
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Empathy-altruism hypothesis

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Altruism results from empathy
Empathy = share in difficulty “in their shoes” = motivation to alleviate the problem

45
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Negative state relief model

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We help others because we would feel distressed (and guilty) if we didn’t

46
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Bystander effect / bystander apathy

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Individuals are less likely to offer help when other people are present

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Who do we help

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Female bystanders:
- help men and women equally

Male bystanders:
- help women more

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Cause of problems

effect on willingness to help

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More likely to help people whose problems are beyond their control, rather than those whose problems are their own fault

  • explains why we donate more to young kids / animals
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Norms

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Commonly accepted but unwritten rules of behaviour

50
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Heroic imagination project

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Train kids to think like “heroes” aka socially centred positive interactions
= more people realize that they don’t need to be heroes to to good
= less bystander effect

51
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Aggressive behaviour

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Behaviour intended to harm someone else and that is NOT socially justifiable

ex. of socially justifiable
- football tackling
- pushing back after being shoved

52
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Types of aggression + who does each more

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Relational aggression: Involves personal interactions
- ex. ignoring, spreading rumors
- seen more in girls

Hostile aggression: Directly confrontational behaviours
- ex. fighting
- seen more in boys

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