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Asch And Ai: Conformity To Non-Human Intelligence, Andrew Stephen Heim
Asch And Ai: Conformity To Non-Human Intelligence, Andrew Stephen Heim
Masters Theses
Conformity is the process that occurs when we submit to group pressures. These pressures can come from normative social influence, a desire to be liked, and informational social influence, the belief that the group has information that we do not. In the current study, the classic Asch line judgment paradigm is combined with virtual reality technology to study social influence in groups of both humans and artificial intelligences. Additionally, the line judgment task is varied as either unambiguous or ambiguous. The results indicated that participants were more likely to not conform to unambiguous stimuli and artificial intelligence confederates. Response times …
Recategorization Threat, Fear Of Fat, And Antifat Prejudice, Katherine Fritzlen
Recategorization Threat, Fear Of Fat, And Antifat Prejudice, Katherine Fritzlen
Doctoral Dissertations
Learning one is similar to a stigmatized group can threaten one’s identity and cause disassociation from that group. However, how would learning of an immutable similarity with a stigmatized outgroup, implying possible recategorization into that group, affect prejudice towards that group? In the current investigation, we explored how receiving feedback that one has a high genetic predisposition to become obese in the future affected implicitly- and explicitly-assessed antifat attitudes. Participants (N = 216) were provided feedback indicating they either did or did not have a high genetic predisposition for obesity, or given no feedback (control condition). We found for …
The Effect Of Demand Characteristics On The Facial Feedback Effect, Nicholas A. Coles, Brooke Frohlich, Jeff T. Larsen, Lowell Gaertner
The Effect Of Demand Characteristics On The Facial Feedback Effect, Nicholas A. Coles, Brooke Frohlich, Jeff T. Larsen, Lowell Gaertner
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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