resistance to SI

• social support 


  resisting conformity - if there are others who aren’t conforming too, free to follow own conscience
• social support


  resisting obedience - if there is another who disobeys, challenges legitimacy of authority, milgrams study with disobeying confederates: 65% - 10%
• locus of control 


  rotter - factor of personality in social influence, measured on a scale from high internal to high external LOC, most people in middle of scale
• high internal LOC


  own actions control lives, has own responsibility, less concerned with social approval
• high external LOC


  lives controlled by external forces e.g fate, government
• high internal locus of control = ability to resist pressure to conform