PSY 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Introspection Illusion, Social Influence, Stanley Milgram

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 230
• Professor: Charles Dufour

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8. 1 conformity: how groups and norms influence our behavior. We conform because it upholds the social order, but on a more basic level, we often do it to look socially acceptable/good to others. Olo(cid:373)o(cid:374) as(cid:272)h(cid:859)s (cid:1005)9(cid:1009)(cid:1005) experiments on conformity had subjects choose one of three lines as the match of a picture of the line that they had. Asch had confederates in the study give purposely wrong answers. [about which line matched up] in order to see if the subjects would conform. A(cid:272)(cid:396)oss se(cid:448)e(cid:396)al of these studies, (cid:1011)(cid:1010)% of pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts (cid:449)e(cid:374)t alo(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith the g(cid:396)oup(cid:859)s [pu(cid:396)posefull(cid:455)] (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g choice at least once, with 37% voicing agreement on the wrong choice. As(cid:272)h also ga(cid:448)e su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts a (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:374)-(cid:272)o(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)g all(cid:455)(cid:863) i(cid:374) late(cid:396) studies. O(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es, the ally would agree with the subject, sometimes they would make a choice in-between that of the subject and the group, and sometimes the ally would make a choice that was more extreme/wrong than the majority.