PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Muzafer Sherif, Pluralistic Ignorance, Solomon Asch
14 Nov 2012
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As predicted, participants believed their own behaviour was motivated by fear of: descriptive norms: describe how people behave in a given situation. Might include how: injunctive norms: describe what people ought to do in a given situation, meaning the type of. No participants in the study asked the experimenter a question, students assumed that 37% of. In a follow up study, researchers examined participants beliefs about the factors that inhibited. This research provides one example of an error we can make in interpreting the social world . Asked participants to read an article in preparation for a discussion with other students. The article was deliberately written in a confusing manner, and was virtually incomprehensible. Miller and mcfarland conducted a study to anyone without extensive knowledge on the topic. Students were told to ask the experimenter if they had any problems understanding. Social norms influence your values, beliefs, and behaviours.
