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All key studies for Social Influence AQA Psych

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Jenness   Participants guessing the number of beans in a jar would change their second guess to be closer to the group estimate  
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Asch   Participants conformed to confederates and said the wrong answer in a simple line-matching task 33% of the time  
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Asch variations   Changed the difficulty of the task, the group size, the unanimity of the majority and whether they answered out loud or in private  
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Zimbardo   Created a fake prison environment at Stanford University to see if student participants would conform to their roles  
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Milgram   Got 65% of participants to 'shock' a confederate to 450Vs, just because of the presence of an authority figure in a lab coat  
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Milgram variations   Changed the proximity of the authority and victim, tried with and without the lab coat, and moved the experiment to a run-down office  
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Hofling   Studied obedience in real life hospital, where 21/22 nurses broke strict rules because an unknown doctor told them to over the phone  
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Adorno   Created the Authoritarian Personality explanation of obedience, claiming some are just more likely to be obey because of their parents  
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Elms & Milgram   Discovered that obedient participants in the original shock study were likely to have a higher F score  
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Avtgis   Discovered that people with a high internal locus of control were significantly less likely to be persuaded, influenced or to conform - compared to high external LoC  
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Moscovici   Found that a consistent minority (8%) were significantly more influential than an inconsistent one (1%) in a colour perception test  
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Nemeth & Brilmayer   Jurors were more likely to be influenced by a confederate juror who was willing to compromise over the level of compensation given to the victim  
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