PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Suggestibility, Social Proof
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Looking at how people respond to what other people have to say. Interested in norm formations how to people come to share ideas and understand. Shows that people will go along with what other people are saying when they are making an ambiguous statement. Everyday we are influenced by other people for good or bad. Even people we don"t know can influence us. People killing themselves make suicides more likely. Could not understand why people in germany were going along with what other people. Wanted to know if people would conform with unambiguous stimuli. Normative influence: what happens when you go along just because the other people are pressuring you to; go along because of external pressure (more likely to be what happened in the asch study) Informational influence: go along because what you think what the other people have to say is valuable; think input of others is valuable (more likely to be what happened in the sherif study)
