Lecture 3--Pervasiveness of Private Conformity

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This effect was even stronger when the confederate agreed with the experimenter and when they were typing fast (consensus and uncertainty) Media Effects on Suicide Rates info that says that others believe suicide is an appropriate response leads to higher suicide rates especially when: observer is vulnerable (teenager) target was famous coverage makes it look positive or heroic coverage about method is explicit coverage of location is explicit coverage offers it as a solution to a problem if there is more or repeated coverage target is female Illusion of Invulnerability to Social Influence participants read a newspaper article about a welfare proposal (told it's a memory test) IV-- told that democrats or republicans support DV-- attitude toward policy influenced by social input but believed that their own thoughts on the content of the proposal were most responsible for their decision believed their own opinions were objective but that other's were influenced by social input deny having been affected when they were in a social influence situation