PSYC 023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Proof, Order Of The Solar Temple, Psych
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Solar temple: ordinary people became victims of powerful pressures for conformity and obedience. All refers to changes in behaviour caused by other people. Conformity: any change in behaviour caused by another person or a group (broad) Limited to behaviour, does not refer to it"s effects of other people on internal concepts like attitudes and beliefs. Use when someone finds themselves in a new or unusual situation. May look to others to decide what to do. People often go along with the incorrect responses of others, even when reality is as plain as it can be. Compliance: refers to a change in behaviour that it requested by another person or group. Obedience: refers to a change in behaviour that is ordered by another person or group. Research on obedience to authority has shown that people are remarkably susceptible to this form of social influence. Conforming behaviours occur for two principal reasons.
