Resistance to social influence

    Cards (6)

    • Social support) -a situational factor
      -assistance of others to help cope w/ situations or others who are resisting, influencing others to do same
    • social support Ao3) research support
      -Rank & Jacobson
      -nurses resisted administering the drug, discussed w/ each other VS Hofling’s findings where the nurse was alone & 95% obeyed
      -social support gives confidence to disobey
    • Social support Ao3) fails to consider dispositional factors like locus of control
    • Locus of control-dispositional factor
      -person’s perception of how much control they have over events in their life on scale
      -high internal =personal control
      -high external=caused by external factors like fate/luck
      -internal more likely to be resist social influence & question credibility of info
    • Ao3 LOC) research support
      -Oliner x2- interviewed 2 groups of non Jews who lived through holocaust
      -group who protected Jews, disobeying nazis had high internal locus dispositions
      -proof locus of control is factor influencing ppls ability to obey
    • Ao3 LOC) fails to consider situational factors
      -research support shows role of situational factors e.g Milgram resistance raising to 93% when he added 2 confederate teachers to offer social support to participant