PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Collectivism, Fundamental Attribution Error, Complete Control

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Prof D

Document Summary

Asch study across cultures: versions of asch"s experiments have been replicated in more than a dozen countries, 3 patterns to take away from this study, 1. People from individualistic societies tend to be less conformist than people from collectivistic societies: 2. People who are member of communities are more conformist than students are: students in general are less conformist, 3. People who have interconnected ideology, connected on some level (e. g. job, race), they are more conformist than people who don"t have this interdependent connection: more likely to conform when they see other people like them conform. Conformity across cultures: hunting and gathering societies and upper social segments of industrial societies, are low in conformity conformity is not valued, agricultural societies and lower social segments of industrial societies are high in conformity conformity is valued. Definition of obedience: obedience is conformity in response to the commands of an authority figure.