Obedience Milgram study Facts 04 06 2014 o 2 3 obeyed through highest shock level fully obeyed o Obedience declined somewhat in downtown Connecticut office o Proximity of learner and authority figure mattered In the same room it was harder to shock them because it was a much more emotional invested experience down the hall or absent easier to disobey Replication o Stop at 150 volts instead of 450 1st protest in original study and extrapolate o modeling and or no social support o No sex gender differences o No education socio economic status differences o personality Implications important to not make an internal attribution to the people in the study o good vs evil o power of the situation external attribution environmental context socialization o Replicating Milgram social psychologists doing a really shitty job of spreading their findings if there was still a sizeable community of people in California on which to replicate the experiment social norms in group pressure Conformity Normative social influence o desire to fit in Informative social influence o desire to be correct Desire for consistency o cognitive dissonance sometimes Asch line study participants were unaware that the confederate had any influence on their response not always necessarily aware of the ways that we are influenced by social responses Autokinetic effect light actually appears to be moving in a dark room and selection alters depending on the group o 3 people judge light movement conform gradually o Bring in 4th quickly conforms to group norm o Bring 5th 6th person entirely new group o trans generational norms Variables that Influence Conformity Motivation to belong liking or commitment to a group Social support for resisting partner in crime Anonymity if your behavior is unknown to others people are more genuine and honest blind responses Size of the group o larger more conformity o anonymity is the exception Status within the group moderate status are most likely to conform because they have the most to gain and the most to lose people at high and low end conform less Personality o self esteem anxiety vague self concept Minority Influence o consistency in arguments behavior o confidence a priori knowledge expertise o independence no conflict of interest Positive psychology perspective o health and well being o safety o littering recycling 04 06 2014 04 06 2014
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