Social and dispositional factors

• Social factor - Social loafing

  • If we are doing a group task, we would put less effort in than if we were doing the task ourselves
• Social loafing - evaluation

  • Weakness
  • People put equal amounts of effort into group tasks
• Social factor - Culture

  • Influences whether we change behaviour or not
  • Individualistic cultures are used to being independent while collectivist cultures are used to working in groups
  • People in collectivist cultures are less likely to change their behaviour
• Culture - evaluation

  • Weakness
  • We shouldn't make generalisations about whole cultures as people can vary within the culture
• Dispositional factor - Personality

  • People with an internal Locus of control are less likely to change their behaviour within a group as they are independent
• Personality - evaluation

  • Weakness
  • Inappropriate to conclude whether someone is internal or external based on one questionnaire
• Dispositional factor - Morals

  • People with greater morals are less likely to change their behaviour in a group because they are concerned about others
• Morals - evaluation

  • Strength
  • Evidence of morality in Milgram's experiment
  • Someone stopped at 150v due to their high morals