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What has psychological research told us about resisting social influence?
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What has psychological research told us about resisting social influence? There have been vast amounts of research into resisting the various social influences that bombard us in our everyday lives. I intend to explore different perspectives and studies regarding resistance, and try to interpret what they tell us about why people do resist in certain circumstances and not in others. There has been a lot of research conducted into resistance but the vast majority of this research centres around three factors. When these factors are relevant it seems our ability to resist is increased. The first of these factors is called Reactance. This as the name suggests is a reaction to some kind of stimuli. The best way to describe reactance in this context is how Baron & Byrne defined it as 'Negative reaction to threats to one's personal freedom. Reactance often increases resistance to persuasion' (Baron & Byrne, 2003: 574)....
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