resistance to social influence

• Resistance to social influence is when a person withstands pressure to obey or conform
• Social support makes it more likely to resist social influence
• Social support is a situational explanation because whether people support you is an environmental factor.
• The effect of social support is backed up by findings from Milgram's study of obedience and Asch's study of conformity.
• Locus of control is the is the amount to which a person thinks they have control over events in their life
• Internal locus of control is when someone thinks they have control over events in their lives 
• External locus of control is when someone thinks they don’t have control over events in their life
• People with an internal locus of control are more likely to resist social influence
• Locus of control is a dispositional explanation because it is to do with individual characteristics
• Two explanations of resistance to social influence is social support and locus of control
• Social support is associated with diffusion of responsibility/the more people who disobey the less severe the consequences are likely to be