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  2. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Obedience is a form of social influence that derives from an authority figure, based on order or command. [12] The Milgram experiment , Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment , and the Hofling hospital experiment are three particularly well-known experiments on obedience, and they all conclude that humans are surprisingly obedient in the ...

  3. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    Social norms refers to the unwritten rules that govern social behavior. [6] These are customary standards for behavior that are widely shared by members of a culture. [6] In many cases, normative social influence serves to promote social cohesion. When a majority of group members conform to social norms, the group generally becomes more stable.

  4. Three degrees of influence - Wikipedia

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    From a theoretical perspective, it has been shown [26] that the three-degrees-of-influence property naturally emerges as the outcome of the interplay between social influence, or learning dynamics, and complex networks. These studies employed emblematic models to study the diffusion of information, opinions, ideas and behaviors on a wide range ...

  5. Social proof - Wikipedia

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    Social proof (or informational social influence) is a psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others in choosing how to behave in a given situation. The term was coined by Robert Cialdini in his 1984 book Influence: Science and Practice .

  6. Social impact theory - Wikipedia

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    Social Impact Theory was created by Bibb Latané in 1981 and consists of four basic rules which consider how individuals can be "sources or targets of social influence". [1] Social impact is the result of social forces, including the strength of the source of impact, the immediacy of the event, and the number of sources exerting the impact. [ 2 ]

  7. Category:Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Social Credit System; Social data revolution; Social engineering (political science) Social facilitation; Social impact theory; Social information processing (theory) Social innovation; Social space; Social spam; Social support; Social technology; Social-desirability bias; Sociology of the Internet; Soviet and Russian influence operations in ...

  8. Social domain - Wikipedia

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    A social domain refers to communicative contexts which influence and are influenced by the structure of such contexts, whether social, institutional, power-aligned. As defined by Fishman, Cooper and Ma (1971), social domains "are sociolinguistic contexts definable for any given society by three significant dimensions: the location, the participants and the topic". [1]

  9. Social experiment - Wikipedia

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    A social experiment is a method of psychological or sociological research that observes people's reactions to certain situations or events. The experiment depends on a particular social approach where the main source of information is the participants' point of view and knowledge.