SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Compliance (Film), Prank Call, Social Influence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Galvin

Document Summary

7:11 pm: situations are an additional factor that affect behaviour. Compliance (film: involves a prank call pretending to be a police officer and convinces the manager that the employee has committed theft and to lock her in a back room and strip search her. Manager complies to phone call, employee complies to manager: creates a feeling of cognitive dissonance in viewers, based on a true story. Occurred across 30 states in the early 2000s until 2004 when. Kentucky police found the man who seemed responsible for most of the phone calls: why do people fall for a scam like this and why did people accept the action, legitimated authority. More powerful than just authority because there doesn"t need to be direct contact with the person. It is about the roles we enact and the hierarchy of roles we follow (role>individual) Police have more power because of the legitimacy we give their role. Expectations and rights given to the role.