Social influnce

Social influnce

Conformity
1. A: To see if people can be influence by other peoples opinions
2. M: Lines
3. R: Participant picked the line even though it's was the obvious wrong one
4. C: Participant did not want to go against group; normative social inflence
  1. Affected by Normative social influence; when we want to be liked by the group and not feel left out
    1. Affected by social influence; using the behaviour of people around us as information in ambiguous situations as we believe them to be experts
  2. Affected by Anonymity
    1. aAffected by Unanimity; when everyone agrees with each other
Obedience
1. A: To see how far people would obey and unreasonable order
2. M: Electric shocks
3. R: 100% delivered 300 volts and some even went up to 450 volts (deadly)
4. C: People are more likely to obey orders if from a person of authority
  1. Socialisation
  2. Authority
  3. Prestige
  4. Buffers
Deindividuation
1. A: To see if people in a big city are more antisocial than small city
2. M: Car placed with bonnet up, abandoned and pasers by's actions were observed
3. R: People in city stole parts, in 2 weeks; barely anything left. In small city; car bonnet was put down only bc rain
4. C: Deindividuation caused by big city = increased antisocial beahviour
  1. Being part of a gang
  2. Mood of the crowd
  3. Being part of a gang / clearly identifiable group
Social Loafing
1. A: To see if being in a group affected how much effort will be put in a task
2. M: Clap and shout in group w/ headphones or alone
3. R: Larger group = less effort/ noise made
4. C: Less effort if known others are taking part. More effort if alone.
  1. Size of group
  2. Nature of task being performed
  3. Culture; some cultures have low social loafing
Bystander intervention
1. Latane & Darley
  1. A: To see if people react less in emergency if others are present
  2. M: Filling in questionnaire alone/ group &smoke
  3. R: When alone 75% reported smoke. When in group, only 38% reported
  4. C: people around you = less likely to react in emergency
2. Piliavin
  1. Appearance
    1. A: If appearance influenced helping behaviour
    2. M: Confederate collapsing in train. Appearance changed many times
    3. R: With walking stick= helped 90% of time. Ugly facial scar= 60%. Drunk= only 20% helped
    4. C: Appearance= affects how quickly they get help
3. Bateson
  1. Empathy
    1. A: If similarity with confederate= they get help or not
    2. M: Woman getting (fake) electric shocks, made participant think whether they we similar to woman or not. Opportunity given to swap with woman
    3. R: Similar= participants prepared to take place of woman compared to if disimilar
    4. C: More likely to take woman's place if they feel similar to them in some way compared to someone they can't relate to = we feel empathy = distresses us
4. Schroeder
  1. A: explore different reasons for bystander intervention
  2. M: Studied findings& conclusions from other studies/ pieces of research
  3. R: able to provide alternate explanations why bystanders did nothing when others present
  4. C: Bystanders distressed& concerned but when other people present= believe someone else more capable than themself
5. Affected by diffusion of responsibility
6. Affected by pluralistic ignorance
7. Affected by cost and rewards= If cost is higher than reward= less likely to help

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