Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Social Influence, Milgram Experiment
4 Feb 2019
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When people"s own responses (behaviours, attitudes, judgements) are influenced by the actions of others. Changes in beliefs or behaviours caused by real or imagined social pressure. Phase 2: participate in groups of 3. Changing public responses and private beliefs or attitudes. Altering public responses, but not true private beliefs or attitudes. More likely to conform to the group for tasks and decisions that are personally important. Extended sherif"s findings by using a less ambiguous judgement task. Exposure to other"s responses group pressure. Neutral trials - all confederates gave correct answer. 12 critical trials - all confederates gave incorrect answer. 75% of ps gave wrong answer at least once. About of responses from critical trials were conforming. Note: control participants make almost no errors when tested individually (1%) One of the confederates says the right answer in a critical trial (going against the group)
