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CONFORMITY
Chapter 7
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Types of Social Influence
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Social Influence as “Automatic”
Chartrand & Bargh
The Chameleon Effect: nonconscious form of imitation
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Conformity
The tendency to change our perceptions, opinions, or behavior in ways that are consistent with group norms.
Sherif (1936) Autokinetic
effect
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Asch
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Two Types of Conformity
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Majority Influence
What situational factors make us more or less likely to conform? Group size Awareness of the norms A fellow dissenter Difficulty of the task
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Majority Influence
What personal factors make us more or less likely to conform? Age differences Gender differences Cultural influences Self-esteem
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Minority Influence
The process by which dissenters produce change in a group. Moscovici: Consistency strategy Hollander: Idiosyncrasy credits
Do majorities and minorities exert influence in different ways?
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Compliance
Changes in behavior that are elicited by direct requests.
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Percentage
That Complied
No Reason Reason Given Irrelevant
Reason
May I Use the Xerox Machine?
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Compliance
How do we get trapped into compliance?
The Norm of Reciprocity Treat others as they have treated you Feeling obligated to return a favor
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Cialdini (2001)
Principles of Influence Reciprocation Scarcity Authority Commitment Liking/friendship Consensus/social validation
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Sequential Request Strategies
The foot-in-the-door: Get someone to comply with a small request first. Request shift: small
large
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Sequential Request Strategies
Low-balling: Increase the size of the request by revealing hidden costs. Request shift: small large
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Percent That
Volunteered
Told 7 a.m. First Told 7 a.m. Later
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Sequential Request Strategies Door-in-the-face: Start with a request
that is so large that it is rejected. Request shift: large small
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Percent That Agreed
Real Request Only After Declining InitialRequest
Willing to Take Delinquents to the Zoo?
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Sequential Request StrategiesRequest shift: large small That’s-not-all: Start with inflated request,
then decrease its size by offering a discount.
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Sales
75 Cents Reduced to 75 cents
Price of Cupcakes
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Sequential Request Strategies
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Assertiveness
When do
people say NO?
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Is there an unintended message?
Just Say No Training
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“Your heritage is being vandalized every day by theft losses of petrified wood of 14 tons a year, mostly a small piece at a time.”
Petrified Forest National Park
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Obedience
Behavior change produced by the commands of authority
Milgram’s research The basic procedure 65 percent of participants
delivered the ultimate punishment of 450 volts.
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The Learner’s Protests in the Milgram Experiment
From Experiment 5: New Base-Line Condition, The Learner's Schedule of Protests from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, 1974, pp. 56-57.
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Factors that Influence Obedience
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Would you have obeyed?
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Meeus & Raaijmakers (1986)Burger (2009)
Replicating Milgram
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Social Impact Theory (Latane) Social influence depends on:
Strength of a source (status, ability, relationship to target)
Immediacy (source’s proximity in time and space to target)
Number of source persons relative to target persons