Variables Affecting Conformity Flashcards
Situational variables
Features of an environment that affect the degree to which individuals yield to group pressure
Size of group
Conformity rate increase as the size of a majority influence increases
Unanimity
Conformity rates have been found to decline when the majority influence is not unanimous
Task difficulty
Great to conformity rate of semen the task difficulty increases as the right answer becomes less obvious
Individual variable
Personal characteristics that affect the degree to which individuals healed to go pressure
Gender
Research suggests that woman conform then then it may be due to socialisation
Mood
Research suggests that people conform or when they are happy.
tong et al 2008 found that participants were more likely to conform to wrong answers to maths questions but in a good mood
Culture
People find difficult as have been shown to conform or possibly because some cultures and will uniform in the structure and have shared value Among their members