Author Question: You're designing an activity for your social psychology class and you want to maximize conformity. ... (Read 26 times)

jeatrice · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

You're designing an activity for your social psychology class and you want to maximize conformity. What should you do to make that happen?

a. Make sure the groups are small.
b. Have the group size be four or five.
c. Make sure the group is diverse.
d. Have the group dispersed throughout a wide area.

Question 2

Dr. Lemitt finds Bibb Latan's (1981) social impact theory very useful when she is researching conformity because its tenets

a. predict when conformity is adaptive and when it's not.
b. identify the costs of refusal to conform to norms.
c. predict characteristics of people most likely to resist conformity pressures.
d. identify variables that make a source more influential.