ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Suggestibility, Heavy Metal Music
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Our personality and behaviours are influenced by our friends and peers. Friends at different stages of a person"s development, friends have varying levels of influence on him/her friends become increasingly important from school age into adolescence, while the influence of family decreases (but is still strong) We instinctually pick up cues from others and conform to their expectations ex: mark snyder"s experiment in 1977 studied men and women who met for the first time by having conversation using microphones (no face contact) Before hand, each of the men were given a biography of the woman he would speak to as well as a photo; the men didn"t know the men they would meet weren"t actually the one in the photo. Half the men were given photos of attractive girls, while other half got pictures of unattractive girls. We don"t all conform to the same degree, and this are 2 types of people when it comes to conformity:
