Social influence - 2

A person believes that they are an agent for someone else. Not responsible for their own actions. They remain here by using binding factors - using excuses that decrease the moral strain they feel.

A person feels independent. They can become agentic via the agentic shift - realising the person is a figure of authority in a social hierarchy, so they no longer have choice.

We give up some of our own power in hopes that members of authority, exercise it properly for the security of society. If not, it is a destructive authority.

Weakness of angitic state, and shift

Unsupportive

Supportive but has a limitation

authoritarian personality

- Excessive obedience to authority - belief that some people are strong/superior and others are weak/inferior - belief society needs a strong leader to fix the falling apart society - very traditional views on gender/race - Dogmatic views- no grey area in their beliefs

Adorno

it was designed to see the unconscious racial prejudice of people. A positive correlation between the authoritarian personality and stereotyping.

The child cannot express their resentment. They display this anger onto weaker, individuals scapegoating.

overly harsh or critical parenting. Extremely high standards, demands, loyalty, and harsh criticisms on perceived failings.

a psychodynamic explanation due to the focus on the defence mechanism of displacement.

unsupportive

unsupportive

unsupportive

locus of control, social support

resisting need to conform, dissenter in Asch study. resisting need to obey 65% to 10% when a confederate also didn’t obey

people with a high internal responsibility for their actions and recognise they have knock-on consequences will resist need to conform or obey as they are less likely to take on the agentic state and remain autonomous.

Allen and Levine repeated Asch’s study. A dissenter with thick glasses (poor vision). Conformity still decreased even if the person might be wrong the idea of having a supporter.

Gamson found higher resistance than Milgrams his participants were in groups. 29/33 participants rebelled

Twenge analyse data of US over 50 years. People became less external in locus of control that last conformists. The others would be expected.

Milgram study repeated 25% didn’t go to highest shock, 37% internals didn’t

believe that the actions and behaviour that they do has a corresponding effect on what happens to them

think that there is a higher power that controls the events in their life

is when one person or a small group of people persuade others to adopt their beliefs, attitudes or behaviours.

commitment, flexibility, consistency

The group should make sacrifices to show they care greatly for the cause

Not be dogmatic and compromise with the majority

Stands strong over time both synchronic and diachronic

moscovici

a group of 6

a set of 36 blue coloured slides that varied in intensity and they were told to state weather the slide was blue or green.

in each group there were two confederates who consistently said the slides were green on two-thirds of the trials.

in a consistent minority was 32% and in an inconsistent minority was 1.25%

supportive

unsupportive

unsupportive

drawing attention, consistency, deeper processing, the augmentation principle, the snowball effect, social cryptomnesia

Drawing attention to the issue making the issue known.

keeping the same message over time

people begin to think about the minority opinion more deeply.

the minority demonstrates commitment through sacrificing something.

more and more people become persuaded by the message.

people have a memory that changes has occurred but not how it happened.