Compliance
- Authority : Compliance is likely when when it come from an
authority figure.
- Commitment: Once when a request is complied to, other similar
request are also likely to be complied.
- Friendship: When a person is a friend or someone you like than
compliance increases.
- Reciprocity: If someone has done some good for you than you
also feel obligated to return the favour.
- Scarcity: Compliance due to lack of resources or
information.
- Social Validation: Person does not want to feel left out and
wants to gain validation.
Obedience
- Proximity - When the authority figure, which the experimenter,
is far away, and the instruction are given by another person, the
the obedience decreases substantially.
- Location - When the experiment is shifted from the Yale
University to an ordinary office, obedience slightly
decreases.
- Presence of authority figure - When the authority figure was
present, the subjects were obedient, but when he was not present,
the obedience decreased.
- Other Participants - Milgram observed that when there were
other participants in the room, obedience decreased.
- Learner in another - If the learner was in the same room, the
subject was less likely to obey the commands.
- Other subject disobeying- If the subject saw another subject
disobeying the commands of the experimenter, then they were more
likely to disobey.
Conformity
- Size of Majority: The more number of people in the majority
group, the more chances that the person will conform.
- Unanimity: If there was even one dissenter in the group, then
chances of conforming fall down considerably.
- Pubic response: When the responses are pubic, the person is
more likely to conform to the group than when the responses are
private.
Differences
Conformity is the process of giving in or yielding of the group
pressure which involves change in belief or behaviour to fit in a
group. Compliance is a from of conformity, but the difference is
that in compliance, even though a person may not agree to a certain
they still go along with it. Obedience is the process of yielding
to a authority figure and their instructions, it is different in
that it does not involve presuure from peers.