Resistance to Social support

What is meant by social support?

Seeing others resist social influence reduces pressure to conform or obey by increasing the individuals confidence

• What does resistance to obedience- a disobedient role model, challenge the idea of?

• What does resistance to conformity-a dissenter, break in a group

• LOA

• Unanimity

STREGTH

In a variation to Milgram’s research, what did he do that showed support to social support?+ results

• He added two additional (confederate) teachers instead of one

• They added social support

• One teacher refused to continue at 150V while the other refused to obey at 210V

• Obedience = dropped to 10%

STRENGTH

What did Asch do in his research that showed support for social support?+ results

In Asch’s unanimity variation, one confederate showed social support by being a dissenter and staying the correct answer. This broke the unanimity of the group.

• conformity dropped from 33% to 5.5%

WEAKNESS

Even in Milgram’s and Asch’s variations with social support what still happened the suggested there may still be dispositional factors?

• 10% still obeyed

• 5.5 still conformed

Who founded locus of control (LOC)?

Rotter

What is locus of control?

A personality scale for high internal to high external.

What does it mean to have high internal LOC or high external LOC? + link to social influence

• Someone with high internal LOC sees themselves as responsible, this personal agency enables them to resist to social influence

• Someone with high external LOC sees factors like fate, luck or powerful others as controlling their lives so they feel less empowered to effect change in their lives so less able to resist social influence

Who replicated Milgram’s research to test internal and external LOC?

Holland (1967)

STRENGTH

What did Holland find after testing?(statistics)

37% of those with internal LOC refused to continue to the highest shock level compared to 23% of those with external LOC

WEAKNESS

The relationship between LOC and resistance to social influence is correlational but are there other factors being involved in resistance?

Yes eg social status, social anxiety