Social influence
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Social influence refers to the way in which individuals change their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment.wikipedia
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Obedience (human behavior)
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing. Technically, compliance is a change in behavior but not necessarily in attitude; one can comply due to mere obedience or by otherwise opting to withhold private thoughts due to social pressures.
Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure".


Leadership
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.
U.S. academic environments define leadership as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task".






Normative social influence
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These include our need to be right (informational social influence) and our need to be liked (normative social influence).
Normative social influence is a type of social influence that leads to conformity.
Compliance (psychology)
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Social psychology is centered on the idea of social influence.



Attitude change
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There are three processes of attitude change as defined by Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman in a 1958 paper published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
They are not stable, and because of the communication and behavior of other people, are subject to change by social influences, as well as by the individual's motivation to maintain cognitive consistency when cognitive dissonance occurs—when two attitudes or attitude and behavior conflict.

Persuasion
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.
Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence.


Social proof
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These include our need to be right (informational social influence) and our need to be liked (normative social influence).
The effects of social influence can be seen in the tendency of large groups to conform to choices which are either correct or mistaken.
Attitude (psychology)
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Technically, compliance is a change in behavior but not necessarily in attitude; one can comply due to mere obedience or by otherwise opting to withhold private thoughts due to social pressures.
Emotion is a common component in persuasion, social influence, and attitude change.
Herbert Kelman
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There are three processes of attitude change as defined by Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman in a 1958 paper published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. In 1958, Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three broad varieties of social influence.
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Power (social and political)
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This form of political power is often aggressive (coercion), and is most effective when imposed by one political body upon another of lesser military and/or economic power.
Abusers aim to control and intimidate victims or to influence them to feel that they do not have an equal voice in the relationship.
Bibb Latané
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Social impact theory was developed by Bibb Latané in 1981.
He is probably most famous for his work with John M. Darley on bystander intervention in emergencies, but he has also published many articles on social attraction in animals, social loafing in groups, and the spread of social influence in populations.
Milgram experiment
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The Milgram experiment, Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment, and the Hofling hospital experiment are three particularly well-known experiments on obedience, and they all conclude that humans are surprisingly obedient in the presence of perceived legitimate authority figures.

Abuse
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Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the behavior or perception of others through abusive, deceptive, or underhanded tactics.
The goal of the abuser is to control and intimidate the victim or to influence them to feel that they do not have an equal voice in the relationship.
Asch conformity experiments
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However, a 1970 Asch-style study found that when alienated, Japanese students were more susceptible to anticonformity (giving answers that were incorrect even when the group had collaborated on correct answers) one third of the time, significantly higher than has been seen in Asch studies in the past.
From this perspective, the Asch conformity experiments are viewed as evidence for the self-categorization theory account of social influence (otherwise known as the theory of referent informational influence).

Conformity
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.

Socialization
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.


Sales
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.
Marketing
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It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing.




Need
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Morton Deutsch and Harold Gerard described two psychological needs that lead humans to conform to the expectations of others.

Identification (psychology)
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Internalization (sociology)
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Social psychology
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Listed below are some major types of social influence that are being researched in the field of social psychology.


Behavior
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Technically, compliance is a change in behavior but not necessarily in attitude; one can comply due to mere obedience or by otherwise opting to withhold private thoughts due to social pressures.
Advertising
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Advertisements that rely upon celebrity endorsements to market their products are taking advantage of this phenomenon.









Celebrity
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Advertisements that rely upon celebrity endorsements to market their products are taking advantage of this phenomenon.






