Complete Social Influence

Published on Sep 15, 2020

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Social Influence

1 - Conformity

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Normative Social Influence

To be liked, compliance, shallow
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Informational Social Influence

To be right, superior knowledge, internalisation, deep

Compliance

Type, to be accepted, public not private

Internalisation

Type, public and private

Identification

Group that you admire, public but maybe not private
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Schultz (2008)

NSI, 75% reused towels, towel use reduced by 25%
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Difficult to detect

People don't recognise others' behaviour as a cause for their own, Nolan 
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Fein (2008)

Political opinions changed when exposed to others' opinions
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ISI - type of task

Difficult - physical reality. No correct answer - more impact.
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Compliance vs. Internalisation

Difficult to distinguish, forget info, self-perception
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2 - Majority Influence

Asch

Line Task

123 pps, 12 critical, avg. 33%, 25% never, 75% once, 7 confeds, male

Group Size

Variable, 3
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Unanimity

Ally same as pp 5.5%, ally diff. 9%
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Task Difficulty

Harder task, higher conformity

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Child of its time

McCarthyism, 1980 Perrin & Spencer (engineering), juvenile delinquents
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Unconvincing Confederates

Demand characteristics, Mori & Arai polarised glasses
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Group Size

Bond, no studies of majority greater than 9

Non-conformity

2/3 didn't conform, 33% avg.
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Culture

American students, Smith, Individualist (25%) vs collectivist (37%)
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Ethics

Deception, informed consent

Methodolgy

Control, reliable, cause & effect, low external validity (no mundane realism)
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3 - Conformity to social roles

Zimbardo
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Stanford Prison Study

Zimbardo, 24 pps, uniforms, findings
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Haslam and Reicher

BBC doc, 15 pps, 2 prisoners: 1 guard, no conformity to roles

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Unethical

Harm, informed consent, Zimbardo involved, withdraw, lessons learnt

Demand Characteristics

Students guessed purpose of study w little knowledge, Banuazizi & Movhedi
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Group Norms

Johnson and Downing, shocks, deindividuated
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Not automatic

3 types: helpful, harsh but fair, sadistic, BBC not sadistic
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External Validity

Abu Ghraib, retrieve info

4 - Situational Factors Influencing Obedience

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Milgram Procedure

40 pps, 15V increments, up to 450V, scientific

Milgram Findings

65% - whole way, 100% up to 300V

Uniform

Lab coat - 65%, normal clothes - 20%
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Proximity

Phone - 21%, learner in same room - 40%, hand on plate - 30%
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Location

Yale - 65%, downtown office - 48%

Research Support

Bickman, security (89%), milkman (57%), civilian (33%), Bushman
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Ethics

Baumrind, deception, informed consent (psychiatrist), withdraw
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Internal Validity

Orne & Holland - not real, no harm, but stress genuine
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External Validity

Mandel, 1942 Nazi guards, obeyed despite factors that should ^ disobedience

Individual Differences

Male, Milgram - 1 female, Blass  8/9 replication comparable

5 - Explanations of obedience

Milgram
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Agentic Shift

Autonomous to agentic, less responsibility, guilt free
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Legitimate Authority

Someone else in charge, seem legitimate
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Not as swift

Lifton-gradual commitment Nazis, Staub-repeated acts of increasing evil

Cruelty

Evil aggressive urges finding expression, SPE
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Reduction in personal control

Fennis and Aarts - bystander effect

Applications to real life

Loss of own moral code - danger
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Research support

Aviation crashes, Tarnow, 19/37, dependence on captain's authority

Dispositional Factors Influencing Obedience

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6 - Authoritarian Personality

Strict adherence to conventional values, obedient to authority, strict parents

Adorno F scale

1950s, high score, authoritarian personality, obedient
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Altemeyer (1981)

RWA, conventialism, authoritarian aggression, authoritarian submission
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Elms and Milgram 1966

Follow up, 20 obedient pps, 20 disobedient pps, obedient higher on F scale, fathers

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Fake shocks/research support

Dambrun & Vatine, correlation between RWA scores & level of shock
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Left Wing

Begue, world value q, LW, lower intensity shocks

Situation v Disposition

 65-48% downtown office, if disposition, obedience wouldn't change in diff location

Education

Middendorp & Meleon, less educated, more authoritarian, reduce b&w thinking

Validity

Elms & Milgram, 65% all way - can't all have punitive parents

Questionnaire

Bad at measuring personality, understanding of q, put what they think they should
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7 - Resistance to Social Influence

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Social Support

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Locus of Control

Internal/external, q,
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SS - Asch Response Order

Levine, order matters, seat 1 lower conformity than 4, pressure doesn't build
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SS - Valid support?

Allen & Levine, the more valid the ally, the greater the reduction in conformity
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SS - Rosenstrasse

Real-life, increases population and ecological validity

LOC - Meta Analysis

Avtgis, secondary data, set-ups poss. different, can show reliability
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LOC - NSI not ISI

Spector, external more likely to be influenced by NSI
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LOC - Society is changing

Twenge, more external, 1960-2002, culture

8 - Minority Influence

Committment

Suggests certainty and confidence - makes people take it seriously
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Consistency

Wood meta-analysis suggested consistent minorities were more effective

Flexibility

Mugny - not too dogmatic but also not inconsistent

Moscovici - procedures

Moscovici - findings

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Ski Lift

Nemeth & Brilmayer (87), flexibility, simulated jury

Tipping point

Xie (2011), computer models based on chat network, 10%

Do we think more?

Mackie-don't listen, Nemeth-'opens the mind', Van Dyne & Saavedra better decisions w dissenting minority

In name only

Nemeth - only accept minority influence on surface, people get annoyed by a dissenting view that persists

9 - Social Change

Draw attention

e.g. suffragettes 
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Cognitive Conflict

Causes people to think more

Consistency

Moscovici
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Augmentation Principle/ commitment

Being prepared to suffer causes people to take you seriously

Flexibility

Smoking ban, gradual progression to increasing it
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Snowball effect

Once you have a few individuals, you start to gather momentum &  the minority becomes the majority
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Cryptoamnesia

Forget original message & messenger and think it was our idea - removes deviance
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Speed

Research suggests minority influence is quick but history contradicts this, potential for change
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Deviance

Influence limited if seen as deviant as the majority doesn't want to associate w deviance
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Communist Manifesto

Act in interest of majority
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Social Norm Interventions

Drink driving, Schultz, inform people what the majority do so they do the same

Ineffective

Norm intervention does not always work and it is costly

Boomerang Effect

Schultz, norm intervention, 'missing out', opposite to desired effect

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