Conformity: Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group's standard.
- Conditions that strengthen conformity.
- One is made to feel incompetent
- The group is at least three people
- The group is unanimous
- One admires the group's status
- One had made no prior commitment
- The person is observed
- Reasons for conforming
- Normative Social Influence: Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disappointment.
- Informational Social Influence: Influence resulting from one's willingness to accept other's opinion about reality.
Stanley Milgram's experiment: (shocking patience) Covered Obedience.
Social Facilitation: Improved performance if tasks in presence of others.
- Occurs with simple or well learned tasks.
- Not with tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered.
Social loafing: The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling efforts toward a common goal than if they were individually accountable.
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