resistance to social influence

• certain factors may make people more likely to resist influence
• milgram - more of the participants resisted if there were others who resisted
• social support - having another person with you opposing the majority view
• why does social support work - no longer taking on full responsibility for rebelling
• social support is supported by asch's theory - people were more likely to resist if other participants also disagreed
• aspects of personality may affect resistance - locus of control
• locus of ocntrol - how much control you believe you have over your life and what happens to you
• locus of control is a dispositional explanation for resistance
• rotter - locus of control questionnaire
• two types of loc - internal and external
• internal loc - belief that what happens to you depends on your own actions
• external loc - events are caused by external factors like luck or actions of others
• people with an internal loc are more likely to resist social influence
• evidence for social support - milgram and asch - when someone else dissenter the rates of obediance and conformity decreased
• evidence against social support - it is still dispositional - some will still conform might be due to loc
• loc pro - holland - replicated milgrams study - higher % of internal loc refused to obey - 37%
• holland devils advocate - majority still shocked
• loc crit - relationship is correlational only
• nemeth crit - lab study
• nemeth crit - deception