(NO AO1) resistance to social influence

• SI - importance of response order

  Allen and Levine

  • condition one - confederate with right answer answered first
  • condition two - confed with right answer answered 4th
  • real participant always answered last

  support more effective in c1 - initial comitment
• SI - social support in the real world

  Rosenstrasse project

  • 1943
  • german women protested where gestapo were holding 2000 jewish men )mostly married to non jewish partners)
  • despite threat of open fire, set free

  presence of disobedient peers
• LOC - related to normative but not informational influence

  Spector

  • LOC vs NSI and ISI in 157 undergrad students
  • correlation between LOC and NSI - externals more likely to conform
  • no correlation with ISI
• research support

  Avtgis

  • meta analysis of studies of relationship between LOC and forms of social influence - including conformity
  • positive correlation for internality/ externality and scores of persuasion, social influence and conformity

  higher external = more persuadable and conforming, and more easily influenced