PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conscientious Objector, Facilitated Communication, Mass Hysteria (Band)
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Plan for today: conformity, obedience, reactance and resistance. Subtle influence: facilitated communication, people who are unable to communicate so they type messages using the help of a facilitator. In an experiment they found that the facilitator is suggesting the messages unconsciously and the child is not actually communicating: douglas, wheeler, et. al. (1993, prisoners of silence. Influence can be completely unintentional and imperceptible by both the influencer and the person being influenced. What predicts conformity: cohesion: the more intact, insular, have a lot of loyalty, experience with each other, people who are similar to us, cohesion can be manufactured. It holds loyalty to each other is most important, more than morals and common good: eg. Why conform: normative influence, going along with the crowd to avoid rejection, stay in people"s good graces, or gain their approval, leads to public compliance. It is unreliable though: this is underlined due to primal fear of rejection and death in isolation.
