Resistance to social influence

• Resistance to social influence - Social support

  Conformity reduced by presence of dissenters from the group - even wrong answers breaks unanimity of majority

  Obedience decreases in presence of disobedient peer who acts as a model to follow - challenges legitimacy of authority figure

  +real world research support, having a ‘buddy’ helps resist peer pressure to smoke
• Resistance to social influence - Locus of control

  LOC is sense of what directs events in our lives - internal or external source, Rotter

  High internal at one end, high external at the other

  Internals can resist social influence, more confident, less ned for approval

  +research support, internals less likely to fully obey in Milgram-type procedure

  -contradictory research, people now more independent but also more external

  -LOC only applies to new situations