The shame inducing silence of our young doctor's peers is an example of
normative social influence.
It is characteristic of our day that when
normative social influence is brought to our attention we generally hold it in disdain.
Not exact matches
The plight of the young doctor's question illuminates a distinction which Harvard psychologist Herman Kelman famously made between two common forms of
social influence:
normative and informative.
Both
normative and informative forms of
social influence are inevitable and important for achieving and passing on this great good of human community.
Moreover, the
social shift I describe has isolated certain powerful institutions (corporate, military, governmental, media, entertainment) from the
influence of the so - called
normative institutions such as education, religion and the arts.
«It is possible that we in modern societies have more individual freedom to express our genetic predispositions because
social and
normative influences are more relaxed, and this leads to the genetic differences among us explaining more of the reproductive patterns,» said Dr Bolund.
During adolescence,
normative changes in the
social context along with maturational changes in neural and endocrine systems that
influence processing of motivational and socio - affective information could contribute to increased sensitivity to
social evaluation, creating a potential window of vulnerability for depression during adolescence.
Hence, after initiation and selection into a substance using peer group,
social normative influences may drive escalation in amount of use.
These biological
influences suggest that a lack of emotional and physiological reactivity to fearful events could explain why children with CU traits are less receptive to learning as a result of punitive measures, hindering
normative social development, and predisposing these children to lifelong antisocial behavior [19].