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Powerpoint III: Compliance Flashcards

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Cialdini’s 6 Compliance Principles

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Liking
Reciprocity
Authority
Scarcity
Social Proof
Commitment & Consistency

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Principle of Authority

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The principle that people are more likely to comply with requests made by a person of prestige or high authority

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How do people perceive information from authority figures?

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They perceive the information as particularly accurate

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Factors influencing authority and compliance

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  • Professional status
  • Organizational affiliation
  • Clothing
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Famous example of authority effects

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Milgram obedience studies

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Wilson (1968) - authority effects findings (height estimates x professor)

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Estimates of height were 2.5 inches higher in the professor condition

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Higham & Carmen (1992) - authority effects findings (heigh estimates x politician)

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Estimates of politicians heights were higher after winning elections than before winning elections

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Authority Effects x Advertising Campaigns

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Stress expertise of manufacturer
- Stress amount of time business has made product
- Hire actors to portray authority figures (doctors & scientists)

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Bickman (1974) Authority & Compliance Study: request for money in street clothes vs security guard uniform

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Street clothes: 42% compliance
Security guard: 92% compliance

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Authority & Compliance: J-Walker Study (Lefkowitz et al., 1955)

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3.5x as many people followed a j-walker into traffic wearing a business suit than casual clothes

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Authority & Compliance: Nurse Study
- What was examined?
- What were the results?

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Study examined level of nurses’ compliance to a potentially dangerous request from an unknown doctor

95% compliance

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Limitations to Authority Research

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  • Not always clear if effects are compliance or obedience
  • Small number of studies
  • Processes are unclear
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What is the difference between compliance and obedience?

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Compliance: a change in behaviour elicited by direct requests
Obedience: changes in behaviour produced by the commands of an authority figure

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Why are the processes used in authority research unclear?

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  • Does not specify if the conditions under which compliance occurs are thoughtful or non-thoughtful
  • Does not distinguish between normative or influence
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Normative influence

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influence that produces conformity because a person feats negative social consequences of appearing deviant

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Informational influence

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influence that produces conformity because a person believes others are correct in their judgments

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Principle of Social Proof

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The principle that people determine what is correct by finding out what others think is correct

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What is the main tenet of Fester’s (1954) social comparison theory?

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People are motivated to evaluate themselves

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What type of cues do people like to use to evaluate themselves?

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Objective cues (if available)

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If objective cues are unavailable, how do people evaluate themselves?

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Engage in social comparison

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Who do people prefer to compare themselves to when engaging in social comparison?

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Similar others

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2 real world examples of social proof

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  1. Salting tip jars (putting money in the tip jar)
  2. Car dealers target next-door neighbours of recent customers
  3. Advertisers provide testimonials and statements of popularity regarding products
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What is the difference between compliance and obedience?

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Compliance: a change in behaviour elicited by direct requests
Obedience: changes in behaviour produced by the commands of an authority figure

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Social Proof x Compliance: Reingen (1982) studies using lists as social proof

Explain the results of both studies

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Experiment 1: money donation
- Finding: people were 18% more likely to donate money when provided a list of names of previous donors

Experiment 2: blood donation
- Finding: people were 27% more likely to donate blood when provided a list of names of previous donors

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How does list size (as social proof) affect compliance?
Longer lists produce more compliance than short lists
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Social proof x compliance: lost wallet study (Horstein, Fisch, & Holmes, 1968)
Subjects: native speakers of american english 1/2 of participants found a lost wallet with a letter written in standard american english 1/2 of participants found a wallet with a letter written in broken english Findings: - People were more likely to comply in the standard american english condition (by 37%)
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What does the lost wallet study demonstrate about social proof?
Social proof of similar others particularly matters
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Limitations of social proof studies
- not many social proof x compliance studies - underlying processes are unclear (thought conditions & type of influence)
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Principle of Scarcity
The principle principle that things are seen as more valuable if they are less readily available to us
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2 main types of scarcity
1. Time 2. Amount
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Reasons for scarcity effect
1. Scarcity and value 2. Scarcity and free choice
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How does free choice relate to scarcity?
when something is scarce, it is closing down our opportunities for free choice, and potentially taking away our self-control and autonomy (reactance theory)
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Scarcity X Compliance study: Imported beef (Knishinsky, 1982)
- Offered purchases of beef to supermarket Control: normal sales pitch Scarcity condition: limited supply & info is not widely known Finding: purchases were 6x higher in the scarcity condition
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Scarcity X Compliance - Worchel & Arnold finding about banned information
People want to obtain banned information more than information that has not been banned
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What is a way to manipulate scarcity other than limiting the amount or time?
Uniqueness of opportunity
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Scarcity X Compliance: Uniqueness of opportunity in a series of experiment 1 of 3 by Burger & Caldwell (2011)
Students contacted by phone to participate in study control: no questions on eligibility Common condition: told eligibility for study based on common characteristics Uncommon condition: told eligibility for study based on uncommon characteristics Findings: mean compliance was greater for the uncommon condition and significantly different from control and common condition --> the opportunity to participate in this is unique
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Scarcity X Compliance: Uniqueness of opportunity in a series of experiment 2 of 3 by Burger & Caldwell (2011)
Students asked to participate in second study Control: no mention of eligibility Common condition: told score on eligibility test was common Uncommon condition: told score on eligibility test was uncommon Results - Compliance highest in the uncommon condition
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Scarcity X Compliance: Uniqueness of opportunity in a series of experiment 3 of 3 (mugs) by Burger & Caldwell (2011)
Students who from the second study are given opportunity to buy a mug Control: no mention of eligibility Common condition: rigged “random draw” for eligibility to buy mugs with 1 in 2 chance Uncommon condition: rigged “random draw” for eligibility to buy mugs with 1 in 6 chance Results - Uncommon compliance was significantly higher --> triple the base rate
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What is the traditional assumption of scarcity effects?
That scarcity effects are non-thoughtful use of a simple heuristic of “scarce is better”
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Which Scarcity x Compliance experiment challenged the traditional assumption of scarcity effects?
Brannon & Brock's Taco Bell Study
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What did the Taco Bell Study challenge? What did they argue instead?
the notion that scarcity works as a result of low thought processes argued that scarcity increases attention to information
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Describe the Taco Bell scarcity study
Purpose: examine scarcity compliance techniques in getting people to purchase cinnamon twists Scarcity conditions: High: special recipe for today Low: special recipe for the year Argument quality: Strong: "great with mexican food" Weak: "not really mexican food" result: - High scarcity/strong argument produced the greatest percentage of compliance
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What do the effects of the taco bell study suggest?
Suggest enhanced scrutiny of information is relevant to the request
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Does the pattern of finding fit well with the heuristic explanation? Why?
No The heuristic view suggest that scarcity should enhance compliance regardless of the argument quality (which is not the case here)
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What are the levels of thoughtfulness that determine mechanism of scarcity & what model are they based on?
Moderate Low High Based off the elaboration likelihood model
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How does moderate thoughtfulness function as a mechanism of scarcity?
Scarcity increases thinking (Brannon & Brock / Taco Bell view)
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How does low thoughtfulness function as a mechanism of scarcity?
Low thoughtfulness = low ability or motivation Scarcity serves as a simple cue or heuristic (Cialdini view
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How does high thoughtfulness function as a mechanism of scarcity?
High thoughtfulness = high ability & motivation Scarcity biases people's thinking about the request, the reason something is scarce will matter and determine if bias is positive or negative
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Scarcity X Compliance: Describe Grant et al. (2013) study skills program
Participants receive information about a university study skills program Thoughtfulness: - Low thought: perform memory task - High thought: no memory task Scarcity: High: program offered for one week Low: program offered for the next two years
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What are the results and implications of Grant et al. (2013) scarcity study about a study skills program?
under low thought conditions, intentions to participate were significantly higher under high scarcity Under high thought conditions, the high scarcity produced less compliance than low scarcity implications - low thought condition provides evidence for scarcity acting as non-thoughtful heuristic - high though condition provides evidence that scarcity can influence behaviour via THOUGHTFUL means by biased the valence of thoughts - high thought condition provides evidence that the reason something is scarce matters
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What might scarcity be confounded with?
Social proof

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