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Social Influence - Rebellion You might object that Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority was artificial in that the teacher subject was alone with the experimenter, a situation we are not likely to come across very often in everyday life. Naturally it will depend on the individual's circumstances how often she will come across such a situation - you alone with your Communication or Media lecturer, your lecturer alone with her boss, you alone with the encyclopaedia salesperson, your lecturer's boss alone with the insurance salesperson, any one of us alone with the doctor. Isn't it likely, though, that a group of people would offer more resistance than just the one subject? Think about that for a moment - have you any such experience? For example, has it been the case that you have gone along with what a teacher has said you should do after she spoke to you alone, but you have had experience of an entire class rebelling against a teacher? Variants on Asch's and Milgram's work There is some experimental evidence to support the view that groups might be more likely to rebel than individuals. In Aschs experiments, if one other person dissented from the group opinion, the subject was more likely to dissent than if she was the only one who disagreed. In another version of his teaching experiment, Milgram had three teachers in all, two of whom were his confederates.
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