PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stationary Point, Chameleon, Suggestibility
26 Oct 2016
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Conformity: change in behaviour/belief to accord with others. Other types: compliance, obedience, and acceptance compliance: conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing. Obedience: acting in accord with a direct order. Acceptance: involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure, sometimes follows compliance. Sherif"s studies of norm formation: autokinetic phenomenon = self (auto) motion (kinetic), apparent movement of a stationary point of light in the dark. Participant changes answer in a group study (room full of confederates) Platow: mood linkage, we feel happy in a room full of happy people. Chartand and bargh: the chameleon effect = behaviour synchronizing (tendency to mimic, natural) suggestibility = ex; book written where young man suicides bc of love = happened in real life, imitating the character"s action (the werther effect) Asch"s studies of group pressure: line experiment, group study. 37% of responses = conformed (even when answer was wrong)
