Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Proof, Normative Social Influence, Bachelor Pad

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Change your behavior to better reflect and conform to what other people are doing. Refers to change in behavior resulting from the real or imagined influence of other people. Usually we are conforming for the benefit of most of us. Swapping people in and out of the elevator but everybody is turned the wrong way. Asch paradigm when the behavior of a person is influenced by the behavior of the group. Changes in behavior because of what everybody is doing. Answerers were: (cid:862)i thought e(cid:448)er(cid:271)od(cid:455)else k(cid:374)e(cid:449) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that i did(cid:374)"t(cid:863) others. We are more likely to conform to informational social influence when the situation is ambiguous or confusing situations, crisis situations, situations with perceived experts. Look at your peers or ppl that look like experts and do what they do. You have to seek out your own information. Carefully (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider if a(cid:374)other perso(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374) of a situation is more legitimate than your own.