Obedience
, in human behavior, is a form of social influence. It occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure. Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance (behavior influenced by peers) and conformity (behavior intended to match that of the majority).
Obedience
, in human behavior, is a form of social influence. It occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure. Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance (behavior influenced by peers) and conformity (behavior intended to match that of the majority).
Introduction. Social influence is ubiquitous in human societies. It takes a wide variety of forms, including
obedience, conformity, persuasion, social loafing, social facilitation, deindividuation, observer effect
, bystander effect, and peer pressure.
Obedience
is the most direct form of social influence in which one person simply orders one or more others to perform some action. … Compliance is less direct than obedience. It is a form of social influence involving direct request from one person to another.
3 THREE TYPES OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE. There are three types of influence that a social presence can have on a consumer:
utilitarian, value-expressive, and informational
(Burnkrant & Cousineau, 1975; Deutsch & Gerard, 1955; Park & Lessig, 1977).
Obedience and conformity
are two kinds of social influences when people change attitude or behavior under the influence of the views of others.
One other way is to use informational social influence; you look to the behaviors of others who are also in the same or similar situation to see how they behave. … Then, you can follow their lead. For example,
you travel to another planet
, where some nice aliens offer to show you around.
Social influence comprises the
ways in which individuals change their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment
. It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.
The central theme of social influence theory, as proposed by Kelman (1958), is that an individual’s attitudes, beliefs, and subsequent actions or behaviors are influenced by
referent others through three processes
: compliance, identification, and internalization.
Social influence is
the process by which an individual’s attitudes, beliefs or behavior are modified by the presence or action of others
. Four areas of social influence are conformity, compliance and obedience, and minority influence.
Sources of Social Influence
Social institutions:
Organized religions, political parties, and labor unions
are social institutions that influence our attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavior. Interactions with other people: The people we interact with, at home, at work, or at play.
Negative influence occurs
when individuals change their
.
opinions in order to increase opinion differences
.
How does society affect behavior?
Society plays a huge role in molding teens’ behavior, character and attitude. It
determines how they see other people, their general outlook, and their ethics
. You as parents can influence all these things as well, but the things that will stick with the kids for long haul are learned from the society.
Social psychologists provide two main reasons for the effects of social influence:
normative influence and informational influence
(Deutsch & Gerard, 1955).
Resistance to social influence • This refers to
the ability of people to withstand the social pressure to conform to the majority or to obey authority
.
What are the different types of influences?
There are four main types of influence. The types of influence include:
negative, neutral, positive, and life changing
.
