Social Influence Checklist

• Types of conformity: internalisation, identification, and compliance.

  
• Explanations for conformity: informational social influence and normative social influence.

  
• Variables affecting conformity: group size, unanimity, and task difficulty (investigated by Asch).

  
• Conformity to social roles (investigated by Zimbardo).

  
• Explanations for obedience: agentic state, legitimacy of authority, and situational variables affecting obedience (proximity, location, and uniform) (investigated by Milgram).

  
• Dispositional explanation for obedience: the Authoritarian Personality.

  
• Explanations of resistance to social influence: social support and locus of control.

  
• Minority influence: consistency, commitment, and flexibility.

  
• The role of social influence processes in social change.