PSY-0013 Lecture Notes - Minority Influence
19 Feb 2014
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Obedience: behavior change produced by commands of authority. Taught from childhood to respect forms of leadership. Experimenter responses when participants wanted to stop the experiment. You have no other choice; you must go on. Psychiatrists, college students, and middle-class adults predicted that participants would stop at 135-volt level, and only 1/1000 would exhibit extreme obedience ( bad apple hypothesis) Actually 65% ps obeyed experimenter, rejected bad apple hypothesis. Authority: moving from yale to run-down building; swapping out white lab coat for. Victim: same room, participant required to hold victim"s hand. Situation: increased personal responsibility for victim, non-gradual escalation, defiant confederate, two defiant confederates. Rebellion ( an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind gandhi) Minority influence process by which dissenter produces change within group. Minorities are powerful because of their style (deeply committed to views, produce lasting private conformity) Dissenter seems unlikely to yield so majority feels pressure to compromise.
