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Resistance To Social Influence
Social Support
Conformity
Social support can help to resist conformity.
The pressure to conform can be reduced if others are not conforming
The person not conforming doesn't have to be giving the right answer, but simply the fact that that someone else is not following the majority seems to enable a person to be free to follow their own conscience.
However, Asch's research shows that if this non conforming person starts conforming again, so does the participant.
Thus the effect of dissent is not long lasting
Obedience
Social Support can also help people to resist obedience.
The pressure to obey can be reduced if there is another person who is seen to disobey
In one of Milgram's variations, the rate of obedience dropped from 65% to 10% when the genuine participant was joined by a disobedient
confederate
Locus Of Control
A concept concerned with internal control versus external control
Some people (
internals
) believe that the things that happen to them are largely controlled by themselves.
Other people (
externals
) have a tendency to to believe that things happen out of their control.
Continuum
People differ in how they explain successes and failures.
But it is not simply a matter of being internal or external
There is a continuum with high internal LOC at one end and high external LOC at the other, with low internal and low external lying in between.