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Social Psychology 461 new confederate until there were four confederates; more than that did not increase the participants’ tend ...

462 CHAPTER 12 conformity is no greater for women than for men, but if a public response is required, women do tend to show more ...

Social Psychology 463 should be done by secret ballots rather than by a show of hands, and it should be made clear that group me ...

464 CHAPTER 12 performance. But the presence of others when the task is difficult produces too high a level of arousal, resultin ...

Social Psychology 465 that salespersons would commonly use. A common example of these techniques will also occur to anyone who h ...

466 CHAPTER 12 this technique that is related to the foot-in-the-door technique, once a commitment is made, the cost of that com ...

Social Psychology 467 playing a series of recorded audio responses (sounds of discomfort, asking for the experiment to end, scre ...

468 CHAPTER 12 not appear to be some random “fluke” resulting from a large population of cruel peo- ple residing in the area. Th ...

Social Psychology 469 Practice Quiz How much do you remember? Pick the best answer. In Asch’s study, conformity decreased when ...

470 CHAPTER 12 APA Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking Cults and the Failure of Critical Thinking Addresses APA Lea ...

Social Psychology 471 examples of the followers of Jim Jones, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh (the Waco, Texas, disaster in 19 ...

472 CHAPTER 12 negative evaluation of things, it’s possible to go into a new situation, meet a new person, or be exposed to a ne ...

Social Psychology 473 COGNITIVE COMPONENT Finally, the cognitive component of an attitude is the way a person thinks about himse ...

474 CHAPTER 12 INTERACTION WITH OTHERS Sometimes attitudes are formed because the person is around other people with that attitu ...

Social Psychology 475 Medium: The form through which a person receives a message is also important. For example, seeing and hea ...

476 CHAPTER 12 and tension are reduced or eliminated. There are three basic things that people can do to reduce cognitive disson ...

Social Psychology 477 get. This suggests that the older children changed their cognition, with effort changing the desirability ...

478 CHAPTER 12 (Fiske, 1998). Stereotypes (although not always negative) are very limiting, causing people to misjudge what othe ...

Social Psychology 479 didn’t understand? Chances are you were going through a number of possible expla- nations in your head: “M ...

480 CHAPTER 12 But why do we do that? Why not assume an external cause for everyone? When people are the actors, they are very a ...