jamie zink senior project!! @Conformity13

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jamie zink senior project!! @Conformity13

6 years ago

when faced with a nonconformist in a group possible solutions are to evict the deviant from the group, to pressure the deviant to conform, or to change the group’s opinion to agree with the deviant (Abrams 2018.)

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When a member of the group differs from the modal opinions of others, the group’s locomotion is impeded, and its sense of social reality is undermined (Abrams 2018.)

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6 years ago

Turkish-American social psychologist Muzafer Sherif’s experiments on norm formation in the 1930s illustrated that in ambiguous situations people quickly form norms (Abrams 2018.)

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Social-psychological research into deviance has focused primarily on the way that individual deviants respond to group pressure and the way that groups respond to individual members who deviate from the group norms (Abrams 2018.)

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jamie zink senior project!! @Conformity13

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Among such arrangements one of the most important is the fact that social norms that might conflict are largely prevented from doing so by applying to different times and places (Conformity 2018.)

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We internalize many norms. We are unaware of alternative modes of behavior and we may realize that to violate norms may result in our incurring punishment while conformity produces rewards (Conformity 2018.)

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jamie zink senior project!! @Conformity13

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They might have evaluated the cost of disagreement as higher than the cost of being incorrect, and thus decided that lying (in this context) was the better option (Zollman 2008.)

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conformity increased as subjects perceived the outcome to be more important (Zollman 2008.)

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Conformist behavior is often criticized as representing a shortcoming of human belief formation (Zollman 2008.)

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Genocides and massacres led to the most unsettling side of obedience that led to some of the most famous and most controversial research in the history of psychology (Burger 2015.)

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6 years ago

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on HOW I LIVE my day-to-day life (Toren 2015.)

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I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me (Toren 2015.)

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I learned I'm not a good executive. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do (Toren 2015.)

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6 years ago

I believe in benevolent dictatorship, provided I am the dictator (Toren 2015.)

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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place (Toren 2015.)

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These inhumane policies may have originated in the mind of a single person, Milgram (1963, p. 371) wrote, but they could only be carried out on a massive scale if a very large number of persons obeyed orders (Burger 2015.)

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Researchers who study obedience are interested in how people react when given an order or command from someone in a position of authority. In many situations, obedience is a good thing (Burger 2015.)