Week 9 Flashcards

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Social influence

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  • how people affect one another through changing beliefs, feelings or behaviors from the real or imagined presence of other people
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Obedience

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Doing as others command - changing behavior by favorably responding to someone who have power over you.

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Compliance

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Changing behavior by responding favorably to explicit requests from other - doing as there’s want

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Conformity

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  • changing behavior in response to explicit or implicit pressure - doing as others do
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Automatic mimicry study results by Chartrand and Barth

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  • people high in empathy or need to affiliate with others are more likely to automatically mimic others
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Wegner explanation of ideomotor action

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Thinking about an action increases the likelyhood of doing it
- when we see others behave in a particular way, that behavior is brought to mind, we are more likely to behave that way ourselves.

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Automatic mimicry - Bargh explaination

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  • people who are mimicked are more pro social afterward
  • mimicry may build social rapport and lead to more pleasant interactions
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Autokinetic effect

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  • a visual illusion in which a small stationary dot of light in a dark room appears to move.
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Sherif et al autokinetic effect

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  • pps exposed to autokinetic effect
  • asked how much the light moved, and pps joined other pps in a small group and told to say answers out loud, and 4 trials were conducted.
  • estimates converged when they were put together
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When is normative social influence more likely to be in play?

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  • when a situation is unambiguous and clear.
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When is informational social influence more likely to be in play?

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When a situation is ambiguous and unclear

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Factors that influence conformity

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  • anonymity
  • expertise
  • culture
  • gender
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Anonymity

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Eliminates normative social influence, and thus reduces conformity

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Expertise and status

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  • expert opinions often carry more weight - eg dissapproval of high status people hurts more
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Culture

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  • interdépendant cultures tend to have higher rates of conformity
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Prentice and Miller

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  • studies consequences of pluralistic igorance
  • the social construction emergency situations as nonemergencies
  • perpetuation of unsupported social norms
  • individuals might conform to their mistaken estimates of the group norm
  • behavior change was more prominent in males than females in the paper.
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3 types of compliance

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  • reason
  • emotion
  • norm based
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Difference between obedience and compliance

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Authority/power - obedience involves authority figure, not compliance

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Reason based compliance

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  • door in the face
  • that’s not all
  • foot in the door

DIF and TNA are based on norm of reciprocity

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Norm of reciprocity

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  • you want to help those who help you and vice versa
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Cialdini et al door in the face study

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Condition 1: Would you be willing to chaperone a group of juvenile delinquents on a zoo day trip?
•Condition 2: Would you be willing to counsel juvenile delinquents two hours/week for two years? No!
•Then, would you be willing to chaperone a group of juvenile delinquents on a zoo day trip?

Condition 2 more effective

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That’s not all

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Adding sm to an original offer

Add o feels like a gift

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Burger et al that’s not all study

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  • Condition 1: 1 cupcake + 2 cookies, $0.75
    •Condition 2: 1 cupcake for $0.75… “and we’ll throw in 2 cookies!”
    •Percent who purchased:
    •Condition 1: 40%
    •Condition 2: 73%
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Foot in the door

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  • initially making a small request that anyone would agree to, and then follow it up with a larger request for what you acc want
  • capatilises n the fact that we like to have a consistent self image - committing to the first one causes a change in the self schema via self perception
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Freedman And Fraser Foot in the door study
Condition 1: “Will you display this large sign in your yard?” •Condition 2: “Will you display this small sign in your window?” followed by “Will you display this large sign in your yard?” •Results •Percent who agreed to the large sign: •Condition 1: 17% •Condition 2: 76%
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Emotion based compliance
- positive mood - negative mood (guilt)
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Positive mood compliance
- increases compliance when they are in a good mood.
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Why is positive mood compliance effective?
- construal: you assume other people’s intentions are good if you’re happy and you feel good. - give other people the benefit of the doubt - Positive mood maintenance: saying no is awkward and creates a negative affect so to continue feeling good you comply.
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Isen & Levin
Participants given a cookie (positive mood) or not (neutral mood) •Asked if they would serve as a confederate for a quick experiment •Half told their role was to help the “real” participant •Half told their role was to hinder the “real” participant •Result: positive mood increased compliance only when the task involved helping someone else, not hindering them
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Emotion based compliance - negative mood
- specifically guilt increases compliance
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Negative State relief hypothesis
- negative moods increase compliance because doing something for someone else makes you feel better .
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Why does negative mood compliance work?
- when someone feels guilty, its an uncomfortable feeling, and thus they will be motivated to do whatever they can to get rid of that feeling
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Norm based compliance
- explicit OR implicit suggestion to conform to those around you.
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Schultz et al. Norm based compliance
CA homeowners received messages about how much electricity they used in previous weeks and how much the average use was in their neighborhood Result: people who consumed more than average started using less; people who consumed less than average started using more (unintended effect) •To counteract the unintended negative effect, the info was accompanied by a smiley or frowny face to indicate approval or disapproval
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Descriptive norms
- Objective and factual descriptions of what most people do
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Prescriptive norms
- what most people SHOULD do according to some rule or tradition
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Cialdini et al - Norm Based compliance
placed signs in Petrified Forest National Park (AZ) to stop people from taking petrified wood with them •Sign 1: “Many past visitors have removed the petrified wood from the park, changing the state of the Petrified Forest. Please help stop this problem” •Sign 2: “The majority of past visitors have left the petrified wood in the park, preserving the natural state of the Petrified Forest” Results: Theft was four times lower for Sign 2 than Sign 1!
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What types of norms are better in order to promote positive behavior
- descriptive norms
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If you are trying to reduce negative behavior, what types of norms might backfire?
- descriptive norms
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How do you make it easier for pps to disobey int he Milgram experiments?
- Make the victim closer to - Make authority figure further away - making it easier to disobey is more effective than increasing desire to disobey
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Why were the Milgram experiments ideal for obedience?
- pps released from responsibility - step by step involvement - lack of practice disobeying authority