Weaknesses LoC

• Rotler

  • Claimed that LoC only influences our behaviour in new novel situations where the correct course of action is unclear
  • When people have conformed in situations in the past they are likely to repeat it
• Twenge

  • Analysed data from American LoC studies over a 40 year span and found that they have become more resistant to obedience
  • However, he found Ppts have become more external - if resistance was linked to internal LoC we would expect people to have become more internal to be resistant
  • Shows LoC may not be a vlaid exp,a nation of why people resist social influence