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Conformity
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- 1AndersonCross Cultural study of ideal body size for women. Areas with reliable food supply, the ideal size is slender, in areas with unreliable food supply, ideal size heavy
Cultural norms are influenced by important factors - 2AschLooked at peoples tendency to conform in a non-ambiguous situation. Carried out a pilot study on his task of comparing lines, 717 out of 720 guesses were correct so the task is not ambiguous
78% conformed at least once with 5% conforming every time - 3Asch Variations1.Size of group, with 1 confederate, conformity dropped to 3% with 2 it was 13% and with 3 it was 32%. It then leveled of at 4-5.
2.Lack of group unity, Giving the participant an ally that also answered with correct answers, also an extreme dissenter who chose the 3rd wrong answer also reduced conformity
3.Conformity rose when he made the task more difficult by making the lines more similar
4.Answering in private, having the participant write down their answers reduced conformity - 4Evaluation of AschPerrin and Spencer - Replicated the study with British Maths, Engineering and Chemistry students and only 1 of the nearly 400 conformed to the majority. Could be due to culture / intelligence / done 30 years after Asch
Ethical issues, deception and harm (self esteem) - 5Informational Social InfluenceMore likely to occur in an ambiguous situation
Perceived facts and figures sway the persons beliefs - 6InternalisationThe person believes the majority to be correct, called private acceptance. Sherif
- 7BaronPeople shown pictures for either 5 or half a second and asked to match it to another picture. Heard 2 wrong answers before giving theirs.
Concluded that people are much more likely to be influenced by informational social influence when they are more unsure of their judgement - 8CrutchfieldSimilar to Aschs experiment in that it is not ambiguous except they are in different cubicles and answers are given by a switch
Conformity levels were low, shows physical presence of group - 9Other factors affecting conformityAuthoritarian Personalities
Culture (Smith and Harris Bond) Made a distinction between collectivist and individualistic cultures, conformity is higher in collectivist cultures
Levels of self esteem and self efficacy - 10ComplianceGo along with the social norms even though you do not believe them to be right, Public Acceptance
Eg, Aschs study - 11Normative Social InfluencePeople are influenced by what others do, not what they believe
People could follow the norms of a group to either maintain the harmony of the group, gain acceptance or avoid rejection from the group - 12SherifLooked at conformity in an ambiguous situation. People guessed how much a light moved due to the autokinetic effect
Participants were put in groups of 3, 2 with similar estimates and 1 with a very different guess.
Over a number of trials eventually the answers converged, shows that people conform. Normative influence is also greater when the person doesn't have much experience of the situation
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- A-Levels Psychology (PSYB2 - Social Influence) Karteikarten am Conformity, erstellt von Adam O'Rourke am 27/05/2013.
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