resisting social influence

• resisting social influence

  when someone resists direct orders from a person with authority, disobeying
• social support


  situational explanation of resistance to obedience
• milgram ran an experiment where there were 3 teachers, 2 were confederates
• if the confederates refused to increase voltage, participants were more likely to disobey
• asch


  if one confederate disagreed with majority, participants were more likely to resist social pressure to conform
• if people have support in actions, they are more likely to resist social influence
• locus on control


  amount of control someone has over events in own life
• internal locus of control


  someone thinks they have control over events in their life
• external locus of control


  someone thinks they don't have control over events in life
• people with internal locus of control more likely to resist social influence
• locus of control can be measured through a personality questionnaire developed by rotter
• shute’s study showed that people with an internal locus of control conform less in situations that produce normative social influence.