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social influence - Coggle Diagram

- - - - for ability to resist ovedience
        
        found that when there was a disobeident personin a milgram test the obedience rate went from 65% to 10%
      - for conformtiy
        
        found that when there was a dissenter the confomrity rate went fown to less than a quater of what it had been
    - - that there is real life support for the use of social support in reisting. Albretch evaluated the teen fresh start USA which used mentors as soocial support to stop teen pregnant girls smoking. Found that those with mentors stopped more than those without. Shows the usefulness of social support in reissting social influence in real life
      - Gamsons study when ppts asked in groups to run a smear test for a oil company and 88% refused due to social support from groups
      - social support cant explain all cases of reistance. In an asche study variation a person with poor eyesight used and dissent was only 36% which shows social support cant account for all cases of resistance
- - - - the study is too artificail . That there is demand characterisitics wghich lowers internal validity and groups are not groupy so doesnt represent confomrity in real life.
      - low application as all ppts american middle class men so cant be applied to women or different cultures.
      - thee is research support for effects of task diofficulty. Lerwis found trhat when given harder maths questions the confmorty increases
      - doesnt invesitgae individual characterisitics which lewis did and ffound that confidence affected confomrity