Social influence - Incidental social influence - The impact of social norms

6 important questions on Social influence - Incidental social influence - The impact of social norms

What is the name of the change of attitudes, beliefs, opinions, values and behavior, as a result of being exposed to those of other individuals'?

Social influence

What are (social) norms that guide behavior (without laws)?

Belief systems about how (not) to behave

Which of the two types of norms informs us about how others will act in similar situations?

EX: most people dress without layers in summer 

Descriptive norms
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Which of the two types of norms informs us what behavior should be performed?

EX: when visiting a place of worship, you should be respectful and quiet

Injunctive norms

What did the famous experiment with the autokinetic effect, which is a perceptual illusion in which a light that is not moving appears to be moving, show about people and their norms when they were confronted with an unstructured and ambiguous stimulus?

People develop a frame of reference against which they judge the stimulus; but when confronted with others' judgements, they adjust their frame of reference to theirs

What is the name of the state in which a person's sense of personhood [...] is stripped away, and they are more likely to behave in an extreme manner (often antisocially and violating norms)?

Deindividuation

[...] = individual identity

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