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Pyramids & Bananas Social conformity and personality differences

Pyramids & Bananas Social conformity and personality differences. Middle Tennessee State University. William Langston. Kassidy Strickland Jihun Hwang Joshua Miller. Faculty Advisor. Background . Asch’s Conformity Experiments What is social conformity? Hypothesis Results. Background.

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Pyramids & Bananas Social conformity and personality differences

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  1. Pyramids & BananasSocial conformity and personality differences Middle Tennessee State University William Langston Kassidy Strickland Jihun Hwang Joshua Miller Faculty Advisor

  2. Background Asch’s Conformity Experiments • What is social conformity? • Hypothesis • Results

  3. Background Markovsky and Thye What is pyramid power? Is pyramid power real? Hypothesis 1 (social impact theory): can paranormal beliefs be transmitted to one person by mere exposure to a credulous source, even in non persuasive contexts? Their methods Results

  4. Our Hypotheses and Predictions Confederate Influence No Confederate Influence • If there is no confederate influence, participants will be more likely to rate the bananas as equal • Social Impact Theory will be supported • There will be a relationship between individual personality and social conformity. • There will be a negative correlation between extroversion and social conformity.

  5. Methods • 23 MTSU students in the library • Informed consent • Background information • Explanation and examples of Pyramid Power-sharpen razor blades-cure illness-Pharoahs’ bodies • Ratings • NEO-PI • Debriefing • Measure conformity (Difference scores)

  6. Banana Exposure The participants were told that the previous week one banana was placed under a pyramid and the other was placed under a box.

  7. Avoiding Bias

  8. Ratings • Box banana verses pyramid banana • Oral ratings-preserved-unpreserved-fresh-rotten-hard-soft-light-dark • Private rating-new-old

  9. Confederate influence (experimental group)Alternate between oral ratings, always beginning with the confederate No confederate influence (control group) Indication of all oral ratings at once, beginning with the participant

  10. Conformity Measures DifferenceScores (D) Conformity=1 pyramid > box No conformity = 0 pyramid = box or box > pyramid

  11. Difference scores • Followed Markovsky and Thye’s between participants comparison • Compared conformity (DOscores) to personality traits • Also tested within participants (DIFF Scores) If there is a difference between oral and private ratings, could there be a correlation to personality types?

  12. Results

  13. Tests of between-subjects effects

  14. Correlations between do & personality • DO = Difference scores of oral rating • C = Conscientiousness • E = Extraversion • N = Neuroticism

  15. Tests of within-subjects effects

  16. Correlations between Diff & Personality • DIFF = Scores of |Oral - Private| • C = Conscientiousness • E = Extraversion • N = Neuroticism

  17. discussion • Time constraint • Participants hard to gather • Three participants taken out. - NEO (1)- Influence (2) Noticeable progression to conformity • Small sample size • There are correlations between personality types and social conformity. If sample size was larger, would have had more significant findings.

  18. Findings • Negative relationship between extroversion and social conformity • Positive correlation between conscientiousness and social conformity • Positive relationship between neuroticism and oral conformity, and positive relation between neuroticism and difference between oral and private. • Our findings of different oral and private ratings contradict Asch's original experiments (once someone commits publicly, they will not change their response privately).

  19. Future Research • Confederate status • Confederate personality • Response time • Further investigate conscientiousness, neuroticism, and extroversion correlations

  20. Social Conformity and Personality Differences Primary Investigator Kassidy Strickland Co-Investigator Joshua Miller Co-Investigator Jihun Hwang Experimenter Kassidy Strickland Confederate Joshua Miller Participant Gatherer Jihun Hwang Faculty Advisor Dr. William Langston University MTSU Investigator Status Undergraduate Type of Project Class Project Class Research Methods References Asch Conformity Experiments. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved April 20, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments. Conscientiousness. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved April 20, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness. Extroversion. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved April 20, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extroversion Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. De Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality Psychology in Europe, Vol. 7 (pp. 7-28). Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg University Press. Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. C. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 84-96. Latane, Bibb. 1981. “The Psychology of Social Impact.” American Psychologist 36:343-56. Markovsky, B & Thye, S. R. (2001). Social influence on paranormal beliefs. Sociological Perspectives, 44, 21-44. doi:10.1525/sop.2001.44.1.21. Neuroticism. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved April 20, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism.

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