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At 12:13 AM 19/02/02 -0500, frankie wrote:
>>Keith said:
>>
>> >There are papers by Zimbardo from Stanford (now president of the
>>>American Psychological Association) that are directly on this topic.
>>>It looks like the mechanism is more one of resistance to social
>> >pressure than learned.
>
>
>As a mother of two sons who couldn't be more different (one is very
>compliant, the other is......not). I think that it is probably an
>inborn trait. I'd be interested to read his research.
PERSUASION
Zimbardo's graduate school training in the Yale Attitude Change Program,
headed by his mentor, Carl Hovland, peaked a long sustained interest in the
processes of attitude and behavior change produced by persuasion. In
addition to a series of early experiments on variables involved in the
persuasion-attitude change relationship, Zimbardo broadened this interest
into the global category of Mind Control. He conceives of mind control as a
phenomena encompassing all the ways in which personal, social and
institutional forces are exerted to induce compliance, conformity, belief,
attitude, and value change in others. After working personally with several
members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple cult, who had escaped the
suicide/massacre in the Guyana jungle in 1978, Zimbardo became fascinated
with the uniquely intense psychological context and forces involved in cult
recruitment, identification, and internalization - and how they could be
resisted. Susan Andersen shared this interest in cults with him, as did
Cynthia Hartley and Rose McDermott, while thinking about attitude change
and social influence benefited from work with Ebbe Ebbesen, Christina
Maslach, and Michael Leippe.
Publications: 8, 19, 20, 24, 25, 31, 36, 37, 41, 49, 68, 90, 115, 131, 133,
134, 136, 137, 166, 185.
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