Conformity:
Books, Chapters and Articles
= new link as of August 1, 2009
Book
Milgram, S. (1974). Obedience to authority: An experimental view. New York: Harper & Row. [added 12/19/08]
Book Chapters
Fiske, A. & Tetlock, P.E. (1999). Taboo trade-offs: Constitutive prerequisites for social life. In S.A. Renshon and J. Duckitt (eds), Political Psychology: Cultural and Cross-cultural Perspectives. London: MacMillan.
Lee-Chai, A. Y., Chen, S., & Chartrand, T. L. (2001). From Moses to Marcos: Individual differences in the use and abuse of power. In A.Y. Lee-Chai & J.A. Bargh (Eds.), The use and abuse of power: Multiple perspectives on the causes of corruption (pp. 57-74). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press. [added 4/6/06]
Tetlock, P.E. (1999). Coping with trade-offs: Psychological constraints and political implications. In S. Lupia, M. McCubbins, & S. Popkin (eds.), Political reasoning and choice. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Articles
Albarracín, D., Kumkale, G. T., & Johnson, B. T. (2004). Influences of social power and normative support on condom use decisions: A research synthesis. AIDS Care, 16, 700-723.
Allen, M. W., Gupta, R., & Monnier A. (2008). The interactive effect of cultural symbols and human values on taste evaluation. Journal of Consumer Research, 35, 294-308.
Burger, J. M. (2009). Replicating Milgram: Would people still obey today? American Psychologist, 64, 1-11. [added 12/19/08]
Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (1999). Just going along: Nonconscious priming and conformity to social pressure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35, 578-589.
Gerber, A., Green, D., & Larimer, C. (2008). Social pressure and voter turnout: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment. American Political Science Review, 102, 33-48. [added 7/29/08]
Johnson, E. J., & Goldstein, D. G. (2003). Do defaults save lives? Science, 302, 1338-1339.
Johnson, J., Carroll, J., Gottschall, J., & Kruger, D.J. (2008). Hierarchy in the library: Egalitarian dynamics in Victorian novels. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 715-738.
LaRose, R. & Kim, J. (2007). Share, steal, or buy? A social cognitive perspective of music downloading. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10, 267-277. [added 11/26/07]
Lumeng, J. C. & Hillman, K. H. (2007). Eating in larger groups increases food consumption. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 92, 384-387. [added 7/13/07]
Madon, S., Smith, A. E., & Guyll, M. (2005). Social norms regarding protected status and threat reactions to the stigmatized. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 572-602.
Smith, P. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Nonconscious effects of power on basic approach and avoidance tendencies. Social Cognition, 26, 1-24.
Smith, P. K., Dijksterhuis, A., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2008). Powerful people make good decisions even when they consciously think. Psychological Science, 19, 1258-1259.
Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. W. (2008). Lacking power impairs executive functions. Psychological Science, 19, 441-447.
Smith, P. K., & Trope, Y. (2006). You focus on the forest when you’re in charge of the trees: Power priming and abstract information processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 578-596.
Smith, P. K., Wigboldus, D. H. J., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2008). Abstract thinking increases one's sense of power. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 378-385.
Tanner, R. J., Ferraro, R., Chartrand, T. L., Bettman, J. R., & Baaren, R. V. (2008). Of chameleons and consumption: The impact of mimicry on choices and preferences. Journal of Consumer Research, 34, 754-766. [added 6/4/08]
Tetlock, P.E., Kristel, O., Elson, B., Green, M., and Lerner, J (final revision process/2000). The psychology of the unthinkable: Taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Wegner, D. M., Fuller, V. A., & Sparrow, B. (2003). Clever hands: Uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 5-19.
Wim Meeus, H.J., Raaijmakers, Quinten A.W. (1995). Obedience in modern society: The Utrecht studies. Journal of Social Issues, 51, 155-175.
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