Conformity on the Internet – The role of task difficulty and gender differences

Rosander, Michael; Eriksson, Oskar

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.03.023

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“…Subsequently, it has been shown that these types of influence are not confined to the perceptual domain and extended to other influences, including long-term memory [6,7]. Studies carried out in the wake of Asch's work have identified important modulators of conformity, such as age, sex, task difficulty, IQ [8][9][10][11][12][13], group size [14], mood [15], personality [16], and hormones [17].…”

Section: Segregating Norms and Information In Conformitymentioning

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Informational and Normative Influences in Conformity from a Neurocomputational Perspective

Toelch

Dolan

2015

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Section: Segregating Norms and Information In Conformitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Informational and Normative Influences in Conformity from a Neurocomputational Perspective

Toelch

Dolan

2015

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…A study conducted by Rosander and Eriksson (2012), shows that users facing a general knowledge quiz in which they were exposed to histograms showing the distribution of the answers provided by other unknown users, conformed in high percentages (52%).…”

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“…• H3) We expect a positive correlation between conformity and task ambiguity, given that with more ambiguous items the subjects will possess less information on how to handle the task, and might rely on other people's judgment (Cialdini & Trost, 1998;Rosander & Eriksson, 2012).…”

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Deindividuation effects on normative and informational social influence within computer-mediated-communication

Perfumi

Bagnoli

Caudek

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Computers in Human Behavior

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A B S T R A C TResearch on social influence shows that different patterns take place when this phenomenon happens within computer-mediated-communication (CMC), if compared to face-to-face interaction. Informational social influence can still easily take place also by means of CMC, however normative influence seems to be more affected by the environmental characteristics. Different authors have theorized that deindividuation nullifies the effects of normative influence, but the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects theorizes that users will conform even when deindividuated, but only if social identity is made salient.The two typologies of social influence have never been studied in comparison, therefore in our work, we decided to create an online experiment to observe how the same variables affect them, and in particular how deindividuation works in both cases. The 181 experimental subjects that took part, performed 3 tasks: one aiming to elicit normative influence, and two semantic tasks created to test informational influence. Entropy has been used as a mathematical assessment of information availability.Our results show that normative influence becomes almost ineffective within CMC (1.4% of conformity) when subjects are deindividuated.Informational influence is generally more effective than normative influence within CMC (15-29% of conformity), but similarly to normative influence, it is inhibited by deindividuation.

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“…It should be remembered that conformity (and simultaneously independence) is relative, i.e. individuals always conform in respect to the particular social group and there are many factors that influence the level of conformity [5,[41][42][43]. It means that the same individual may conform to one group and behave independently in respect to another.…”

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Phase transitions in theq-voter model with noise on a duplex clique

Chmiel

Sznajd-Weron

2015

Phys. Rev. E

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We study a nonlinear q-voter model with stochastic noise, interpreted in the social context as independence, on a duplex network. To study the role of the multi-levelness we propose three methods of transferring the model from a mono-to a multiplex network. They take into account two criteria -one related to the status of independence (LOCAL vs. GLOBAL) and one related to peer pressure (AND vs. OR). In order to examine the influence of the presence of more than one level in the social network, we perform simulations on a particularly simple multiplex -a duplex clique, which consists of two fully overlapped complete graphs (cliques). Solving numerically the rate equation and simultaneously conducting Monte Carlo simulations, we provide evidence that even a simple rearrangement into a duplex topology may lead to significant changes in the observed behavior. However, qualitative changes in the phase transitions can be observed for only one of the considered rules -LOCAL&AND. For this rule the phase transition becomes discontinuous for q = 5, whereas for a monoplex such a behavior is observed for q = 6. Interestingly, only this rule admits construction of realistic variants of the model, in line with recent social experiments.

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Conformity on the Internet – The role of task difficulty and gender differences

Cited by 50 publications

References 55 publications

Informational and Normative Influences in Conformity from a Neurocomputational Perspective

Informational and Normative Influences in Conformity from a Neurocomputational Perspective

Deindividuation effects on normative and informational social influence within computer-mediated-communication

Phase transitions in theq-voter model with noise on a duplex clique

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