social support

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P: allen and levine studied whether the response position of the person providing social support made any difference to a participant resisting the majority
E: in one condition, a confederate answered first, giving the right answer, while the other confederates all gave the same wrong answer. real participant always answered 5th. in second condition, confederate answered 4th. support more effective in position 1 than in 4
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L: the researchers suggest that a correct first answer, in confirming the participant's own judgement, produces an initial commitment to the correct response that endures even though other group members disagree
P: rees and wallace showed that the social support provided by friends helped adolescents resist conformity pressures from the majority
E: individuals with a majority of friends who drank alcohol were more likely to have engaged in drunkenness and binge drinking over the previous 12 months. However, they also found that individuals were able resist pressures to drink alcohol when they had a friend or two who also resisted
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L: this is consistent with lab-based experiments on social influence and shows that the social support offered by non-drinking friends can decrease the odds of a non-drinker deciding to consume alcohol, even when faced with the conformity pressures of a drinking majority