Publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing is called
- a change in behaviour or belief to accord with others. Show What is the insincere, outward conformity? - compliance What is the sincere, inward conformity? - acceptance Can compliance lead to acceptance conformity?
YEPPPPP Norm formation: - self(auto) motion (kinetic). The apparent movement of a stationary point of light in the dark. Perhaps you have experienced this when thinking you have spotted a moving satellite in the sky, only to realize later that it was merely an isolated star. **in a study that included confederates and participants.....participants estimated how far the light over. The study's aim was to see if you could get people to agree on a distance. Once you all know each others distances will you converge answers? The study went for four days. By the fourth day= same answer = norm developed. Norm formation: -used auto kinetic phenomenon Social contagion: - just being around happy people can make us feel happier Social contagion: -in their studies when a confederate occasionally rubbed their face or shook their foot the participants via automatic behaviour would rub and shake with them.
Social contagion: - mimicry would also incline others to like and be helpful to you and to others. Being mimicked seems to enhance social bonds which can even lead to donating more money to charity. Copy cat succeed phenomenon? - suicides as well as fatal auto accidents and private airplane crashes ( which sometimes disguise suicides) increase after well publicized suicides. In both Germany and the US, suicide rates rise slightly following what? fictional suicides on soap operas and ironically in after serious dramas that focus more on the suicide problem. The chameleon effect study in March, 1954? - reported wind shields were getting damaged Explain Asch's classic study of group pressure! - he asked people to judge the length of a line in the presence of others. Which of the three lines matches the standard line. Describe Milgram's obedience study! - participants were asked to apply voltages to another person by a confederate (the person receiving the shock was one too) What are the four factors that determined the level of obedience ? - victim's
emotional distance Breeding obedience: - the learners could not be seen ( and could not see them) Breeding obedience: - he gave the commands by telephone, full obedience dropped to 21% ( although many lied and said they were obeying). Other studies confirmed that when the one making the request is physically close, compliance increased. Breeding obedience: - giving a light touch on the arm, ppl are
more likely to comply by lending a dime, signing a petition or sampling a new pizza. Breeding obedience: -reduces Breeding obedience: - if the prestige of the authority is important, then perhaps the insertional prestige of Yale University (for ex) where the Milgram studies were conducted, legitimizes the commands. Is conformity always a little prick? - nope Is conformity always a little prick? - placed the teacher with two confederates to help conduct the procedure. During the study, both defied the experimenter who ordered the real subject to continue alone. Did he? No. 90% liberated themselves by conforming to the defiant confederates Situations can / or cannot induce ordinary people to capitulate cruelty The drift toward evil usually comes in large/small increments, with/without any conscious intent to doe vil. Under the sway of evil forces, even nice people are sometimes corrupted as they do what? - construct moral rationalizations for immoral behaviour. What predicts conformity? - group size, ambiguity, task difficulty, cohesion, status and prior commitment Predicting Conformity: Predicting Conformity: - the group has three or more people and is cohesive, unanimous, and high in
status. Conformity is also highest when the response is public and made without prior commitment Predicting Conformity: - three to five people will elicit much more conformity than just one or two. Increasing the number of people beyond five yields diminishing results. Predicting Conformity: - got confederates to pause on sidewalk and look up. Predicting Conformity: Predicting Conformity: - people
will nearly always voce their convictions if just one other person has also different from the majority. Predicting Conformity: - a "we feeling" the extent to which members of a group are bound together, such as by attraction to one another Predicting Conformity: - a minority opinion from someone outside the groups we identify - from someone t another university or different religion, for example - sways us less than the same minority opinion from someone within out group. Predicting Conformity: - requests form those said to share their birthday, their first name or features of fingerprint. The more cohesive a group is the more power it gains over its members. Fearing rejection by group members whom they like, they allow them a certain power. Predicting Conformity: - higher status people tend to have more impact Predicting Conformity: - as shown in experiments, people conform more when they must respond publicly infant of others rather than writing their answer privately Predicting Conformity: - once they commit themselves
to a position, people seldom yield to social pressure. Real umpires and referees rarely reverse their initial judgments. Why Conform: - to be accepted and avoid rejection Why Conform: - named the two possibilities of what leads someone to conformity: Why Conform: - conformity based on a person's desire to fulfill other's expectations, often to gain acceptance Why Conform: - conformity that results from accepting evidence about reality provided by other people. Why Conform: - going along with the crowd to avoid rejection. In the lab and one everyday life, groups often reject those that consistently deviate. Why Conform: Why Conform: - the brain regions dedicated to perception (and not conscious decision making brain regions) become active. And when they went against the group, brain regions associated with it . Why Conform: - informational influence as people construct reasons to justify their conformity. Who conforms: - 1960s- inner motives and dispositions might be influencing other peoples actions Who conforms: - positive moods which induce more superficial information processing, tend to enhance conformity, negative moods to reduce conformity. - compared with people in individualistic to countries, those in collectivists countries (where social harmony is prized) are more responsive to other's influence Who conforms: - it takes a whole cluster of norms to decline a role. - a motive to protect or restore one's sense of freedom. Reactance arises when someone threatens our freedom of action. Resistance: - non-nerdy students stopped wearing live strong wristbands when nearby nerdy academic students started wearing the band...Brits dissociated themselves from a dissimilar group when they stopped wearing burberry caps after they caught one among soccer hooligans. Resistance: the emotional desire to maintain personal freedom Resistance: - western cultures feel uncomfortable when they appear exactly like everyone else. What are the compliance techniques we discussed in class? - foot-in door- technique Compliance techniques: - agreeing to a small request increases the likelihood of agreeing to a second larger request Compliance techniques: - refusing a large request increases the likelihood of agreeing to second smaller request. Compliance techniques: - receiving a small gift increases the likelihood of agreeing to a subsequent request. Compliance techniques: - agreeing to purchase something at a given price increases the likelihood of agreeing to purchase it at a higher price. Compliance techniques: - making a product appear rare or temporary increases its attractiveness Compliance techniques: - people re more likely to help others whom they like What is publicly acting in accord with a direct request called?What is compliance? conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing.
What are the 3 types of conformity?Herbert Kelman identified three major types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization.
When a person changes his her public behavior and private beliefs it is called?53). Internalization always involves public and private conformity. A person publicly changes their behavior to fit in with the group, while also agreeing with them privately. This is the deepest level of conformity were the beliefs of the group become part of the individual's own belief system.
What is it called when a person acts in line with another person in order to gain that person's approval?Conformity is the act of changing your behaviors in order to fit in or go along with the people around you.
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