Research Handbook on Social Influence

Edited by Radmila Prislin

ISBN13: 9781035309665

Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Format: Hardback

Published: 20/02/2025

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Description
This timely Research Handbook provides an in-depth exploration of the scholarly understanding of social influence. Expanding on classic characterisations and themes such as conformity, majority and minority persuasion, compliance and authority, this book examines how people exert and react to social influence in dynamic interpersonal and group settings. Bringing together a diverse team of global experts, the Research Handbook reviews how research in the field has historically developed, assesses current analyses that range from neurocognitive to cultural in existing social influence research and highlights key avenues for the advancement of this burgeoning area of study. Authors document the ubiquitous nature of social influence, address its effects on performance and action, and discuss how it shapes the self, relationships, groups and social reality. Finally, the Research Handbook reflects on the role of social influence in two specific settings, the digital world and legal processes, areas chosen for their unique relevance and research vibrancy. The Research Handbook on Social Influence will be an essential resource for academic researchers and students of social psychology, but also for scholars and practitioners in many other fields concerned with social behaviour. Providing a rigorous yet accessible overview of social influence research, this Handbook will serve them well as a source of scientific information and its potential applications to their professional endeavours.
Contents INTRODUCTION 1 Themes and times in research on social influence 2 Radmila Prislin PART I LEVELS OF ANALYSIS 2 The neurocognitive underpinnings of social influence 25 Markus Germar 3 The group identity account of social influence 41 Russell Spears 4 The bidirectional relationship between social influence and culture 57 Helen C. Harton and Ian M. Beatty 5 The dynamic foundations of social influence 72 Robin R. Vallacher and Andrzej Nowak PART II EXERTING SOCIAL INFLUENCE 6 Changing behavior through normative social influence 89 P. Wesley Schultz, Stasie Dear-Ferguson, Paul R. Hernandez, Magnus Bergquist and Andreas Nilsson Hed 7 Social influence of emotions 104 Shlomo Hareli and Ursula Hess 8 Methods and models of majority and minority influence 117 William D. Crano and Tehreem Riffat 9 Social influence in interacting groups 133 R. Scott Tindale and Christine M. Smith 10 Social hierarchy and social influence 148 Derek D. Rucker and Adam D. Galinsky 11 Leadership as social influence: a social identity perspective 164 Michael A. Hogg and Sucharita Belavadi PART III RESPONDING TO SOCIAL INFLUENCE 12 Acceptance and independence in conformity and compliance 00 Leandre R. Fabrigar, Ava Camposarcone and Carina Pham 13 Obedience 195 Dariusz Dolinski and Tomasz Grzyb 14 Group polarization 211 Rene Ziegler and Janusch Sieber 15 Imitation as social influence 227 Oliver Genschow and Danna Oomen PART IV SOCIAL INFLUENCE, PERFORMANCE, AND ACTION 16 Social facilitation and social inhibition 244 Janina Steinmetz 17 Deindividuation: the role of self-awareness and norms in disinhibited behavior and their relevance to crowd behavior 258 Paul B. Paulus and Jared B. Kenworthy 18 Intergroup conflict and social influence: varieties of minority action 274 John M. Levine and Fabrizio Butera PART V SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN CREATING THE SELF, RELATIONSHIPS, GROUPS, AND SOCIAL REALITY 19 Socio-cultural influences on self-evaluation 298 Lowell Gaertner and Constantine Sedikides 20 Social influence in close relationships 313 Kenneth Tan and Ya Hui Michelle See 21 Social influence in creating, maintaining, and breaking the status quo 329 Kim Peters and Jolanda Jetten 22 Social influence through shared reality 344 Gerald Echterhoff and E. Tory Higgins PART VI SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN SPECIFIC SETTINGS 23 Social influence in legal processes and decision-making 365 Margaret Bull Kovera and Eliana Aronson 24 Social influence in the world of digital media Stephan Winter and Tobias Schreyer
  • Social, group or collective psychology
  • Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
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