PPT-Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment

Muchnik Aral Taylor Present by Haiteng Sun Introduction our society is increasingly relying on the digitized aggregated opinions of others to make our own decision Question. Randomiza tion if done properly can keep study groups as similar as possible at the outset so that the investigators can isolate and quantify the effect of the interventions they are studying No other study design gives us the power to balance unkno CS648. . Lecture 3. Two fundamental problems. Balls into bins. Randomized Quick Sort. Random Variable and Expected . value. 1. Balls into BINS. Calculating probability of some interesting events. 2. trials. Kinza Waqar. Assisitant. Clinical Research Associate. Shifa. Clinical research Center. (SCRC). Contents:. What are RCTs?. General Principals of RCTs. Randomization: The strength of RCTs. Allocation concealment . Two Types of Social Influence. Techniques of Social Influence. Persuasion. Resisting Persuasion. Social Influence and Persuasion. James Warren Jones . Jonestown (1978). How could Jim Jones have influenced his followers to such a deep level that more than 900 committed revolutionary suicide?. Social influence. Conformity (majority influence) and explanations of why people conform, including informational social influence and normative social influence . Types of conformity, including internalisation and compliance . Social Psychology. Miss Bird. Homework due. Research . and make notes on the key study on minority influence by Moscovici et al (1969) - APFCC. . Complete . the 4-mark past-exam question on conformity . . Sinan. Aral . , . Dylan Walker . Presented by: . Mengqi. . Qiu. (. Mendy. ). 301159832. March 16th. Introduction. Definitions and measurements of Tie Strength, Embeddedness & Social Influence;. Donna Vandergrift, Associate Professor, . Psychology. Welcome Back Spring 2016. www.donnavandergrift.com. dvandergrift@bcc.edu. Social Influence and Persuasion. Convincing others to behave the way you want them to can be difficult, but by understanding some psychology principles can help you be more effective. Social Psychology. Social psychology. scientifically . studies how we . think about. , . influence. , and . relate to. one another.. “We cannot live for ourselves alone.”. Herman Melville. Attributing Behavior to Persons or to Situations. What is . the primary reason why this experiment is not valid?. Bellwork. 8-26-15. Objectives. Students will be able to describe the tools, skills, knowledge, and dispositions needed to conduct scientific inquiry. . Answer the two scenario questions on page 10 of your booklets about why people conform. Starter. Would you trust someone else's answer more than your own when you haven't revised very hard for a test?. 1.What . is conformity?. 2.Why . do you think people in society conform. ?. 3.What . is obedience?. 5.Who . in society do we obey?. 6.Can . you think of examples where people in society have resisted against conformity or obedience? . ROBERT ROSENTHAL and the as their last written instructions is to duplicating experimental findings you may have with regard experiment is have shown studies have continuous inbreeding do considerably Non-standard decision making (Menu effects) and non-standard beliefs. Reading. Predictably Irrational. , Chapter 9, . Keeping Doors Open. Nudge. , sections “Rules of Thumb” and “Company Stock” of Chapter 7, .