Group Norms.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:59:27
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 2 pages (494 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 2 pages (494 words)
Matthew J. Hornsey; Louise Majkut; Deborah J. Terry and Blake M. McKimmie
of the University of Queensland, performed two conformity experiments on university
students. These experiments were done too measure the influence of group norms on
student's attitudes.
Experiment one involved 205 university students who rated themselves as being
pro-gay law reform. The students were given numerous questions that asked them to rate
the moral basis for their attitude, and what they believed society's attitude was.
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…it be publicly
or privately, moral basis seems to play a large part in whether one conforms to group
norms.
Erin Nixon
200037867
References:
Hornsey, Matthew J., Majkut, Louise, Terry, Deborah J., & McKimmie, Blake M.,
(2003, September). On being loud and proud: Non-conformity and counter-conformity to group norms. British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 42, 319-333.
Myers, D.G., & Spencer, S. J. (2004). Social Psychology Second Canadian Edition.
<Tab/>Toronto: McGraw-Hill.
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