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Social Influence and Persuasion
Social influence is believed to occur when an individual's emotions, behaviors, or opinions are influenced by others'. Compliance, identification, internalization are the three broad varieties of social influence that have since been identified. Compliance occurs when people agree with others' opinions while keeping their dissenting opinions private. Identification is normally associated with very popular people like the celebrities. Such people easily influence people who believe in them. Internalization does happen when people, either publicly or privately, accept a belief or a behavior.
Social influence and persuasion are an integral tenet of communication. Persuasion is a form of social influence where audiences are intentionally encouraged to adopt an idea or a course of action through symbolic means. Activities that other people who stay around you engage are likely to determine how you behave. It is true that people differ from one another. However,...
Social influence does impact on ones way of behaving. Some of the notable social influences include conformism, obedience, deindividuation, and helping (Fiske, 2009).
Conformism in this context implies that an individual will always try to tune his or her behavior to the groups s/he subscribes to without direct order to do so. Conformism normally happen because nobody would want to be wrong because the members of the group trust the group's judgment over their own because the group contains more people. The more the group members are, the slimmer the chances that the group can be wrong. Conformism can also be attributed to acceptance. Many people would want their behaviors to conform to that of other group members so that they are accepted by such groups (Fiske, 2009).
Obedience is the most direct form of social influence. It is the reaction to an order especially an authority figure.…
References List
Fiske, S.T. (2009). Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Vaughan, G. & Hogg, M.A. (2005). Introduction to Social Psychology. Brisbane: Pearson
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Peer pressure can also have its positive effects on teenagers. Just as teenagers can be influence by their peers to engage in high-risk and unhealthy behaviors, they can also be influenced to make positive choices. Positive choices can include joining a volunteer project, getting good grades because their social group values good grades, trying out for sports, joining academic clubs, artist interests, and overall encouragement to succeed ("Peer pressure:
The study also asked whether people would develop paranormal beliefs more readily if those in a higher life status than themselves would promote such beliefs. Social influence refers to changes in feelings, beliefs, values or behaviors that result from the actions of others. Examples of influenced behaviors may include: following orders at work (obedience to authority), dressing like one's peers (conformity to a group), and convincing a friend to change her
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