Social Influence

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To prepare:

  • Review Chapters 8 and Chapter 9 of your course text, Social Psychology, focusing on the factors that are associated with social influence on behavior.
  • Think about examples in the news in which people did or did not demonstrate conformity or obedience.

Note: One way to find examples of news events for these concepts is to go to a major search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.), click on the "news" tab, and type in appropriate search terms.

By Day 2

Post a brief description of a contemporary example from the news in which people did or did not demonstrate conformity or obedience. Use a theory discussed in Chapter 8 to explain how or why the behavior illustrates conformity or obedience. Use information from Chapter 9 to explain how being in a group might influence behaviors in your example. That is, in your example, how might group processes, characteristics, or functions explain behavior?

Notes:

  • Identify your example in the subject line of your post.
  • Please do NOT select the Holocaust or Milgram's studies as your example

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Social Influence: Why Do People Follow the Crowd?
Conformity is the change in belief, behaviors, and opinions that occur in individuals
when there is any form of group-influence. Conformity occurs when an individual’s beliefs,
behaviors, values, and attitudes are influenced by either one individual or a group of people who
formulate norms. During conformity, individuals change the way they believe and behave to
respond to social pressures around them (Aronson et al. 378). The most common result of
conformity is expressed in beliefs and behaviors that are the same to people around them. The
change of opinions and behaviors occurs when people conform to people that they believe to
have accurate information, which results...


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