Latané's Theory Of Conformity

To commence with, conformity and disobedience are ubiquitous nowadays. The roles of authority are easily found by interconnecting school, workplace, home and government. The interaction and relation of family, college and occupation are bilateral. Childhood can be influenced by parenting styles, students can be instructed by educators, employees can be monitored by supervisors while intelligence quotient and personality are unidirectional because of individual differences. When trying to explain social behavior on how an individual acts within a social context in relation to others, personality psychologists stated that individual differences are the behavior in term of the person’s individual character traits. While social psychologists would

The number of people in the group came first. When the size of the group increases, each additional person has less of an influencing effect. The second is the strength of the group’s importance to self. Conformity will increase as strength increases. The last is the immediacy. The more important to a group and the more in presence, the more likely to conform to its normative pressures. Conformity increased as the number of people in the group increased, but once the group reached four or five other people, conformity does not increase much. Normative pressures are much stronger when they come from people whose friendship, love, and respect we cherish because there is a large cost to losing this love and

If another person disagrees with the group, this behavior will help you buck the tide as well. Asch (1955) varied experiment by having six out of seven confederates pick the wrong line instead of all seven. Now the subject was not alone. Conformity dropped to 6% of the trials, as opposed to 32% when alone. Stanley Milgram (1961) replicated the Asch studies in Norway and France and found that the Norwegian participants conformed to a greater degree than the French participants did. Norway has a more collectivistic culture than France. These differences were observed in other international comparisons as well when the group culture is