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What has psychological research told us about resisting social influence?
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Essay: What has psychological research told us about resisting social influence? Introduction Social influence can be strong, weak or non-existent and that the factors determining this can be seemingly trivial, unconscious and vary with personality. This is undoubtedly what led to Stainton Rogers' (1995) assertion that "there are no simple answers or scientific laws to be discovered" in respect of questions of social influences. In this paper, however, I show that despite a plethora of unexpected results the research is pointing to possible new theories of social influence. Human social behaviour may be complex but this is made up of a multiplicity of individual simple factors as in all biology, and must at some level obey scientific laws. Examples of research into social influences In 1964 two New York psychologists set out to determine experimentally the basis of an extraordinary killing. Thirty eight neighbours witnessed the chase and multiple stabbing attacks of a young...
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