The number of members within a group expressing a minority opinion also affects the level of influence that they are able to exert on the remaining members. M. B. Because of the status white people retain in American society, a degree of privilege and belonging still awaits those who can claim it. Vol. Minority influence, in Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. New York: Psychology Press. (2002). A. In the beginning, there was a minority. 4. Influence and its aftermath: Motives for agreement among minorities and majorities, in Coping with Minority Status: Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion. A study of normative and informational influences upon individual judgment, J. Abnorm. Minority sources persuasibility increased over time when their targets increasingly favorable reactions turned them into a majority (minority majority). 71, 11811193. Whereas these two motives for exerting social influence fit the classical dual-motive scheme for responding to social influence (Deutsch and Gerard, 1955), the third, social control motive has been largely neglected in the social influence literature. Around the turn of the 20th century, American leaders began to recognize the accumulating effects of immigration and civil rights. Whereas most minorities seek social change, they do so for a variety of reasons that originate from a variety of disadvantageous social, economic, and psychological conditions. 1, 195228. 19, 257276. G. Barnett and F. F. Boster, (Ablex), 4374. How ingratiation techniques are used to persuade people. A minority opinion is also termed dissenting Morally admirable or moralistically deplorable? In the process, they influence and are influenced, adjust their influence strategies and responses, form and dissolve alliances. How the life changes caused by experiencing major events can affect stress levels. As a result, the group should be weakened in the immediate aftermath of social change. A., Busceme, S., and Blackstone, T. (1994). Chen, X., and Kruglanski, A. W. (2009). J. Pers. 76, 10391053. Rather, it has focused dominantly on the cognitive processes and attitudinal change in response to a minority advocacy or minority mere presence, and, to a lesser degree, to the role of minority influence in decision-making and task groups. Shared reality: Motivated connection and motivated cognition, in Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles. Jung, J., Bramson, A., Crano, W. D., Page, S. E., and Miller, J. H. (2021). Social influence exerted by minorities motivated by social control may differ from social influence exerted by their validation-motivated and acceptance-motivated counterparts. The social self: On being the same and different at the same time. Itslike in the Milgramstudies in which people were less doi: 10.1177/0146167291175001, Brodbeck, F. C., Kerschreiter, R., Mojzisch, A., and Schulz-Hardt, S. (2007). Polyphasic sleep patterns, daytime naps and their impact on performance. 42, 2530. Studies done in this tradition have generated valuable insights into the nature and outcomes of minority influence, specifying conditions under which a minority exerts influence and the processing underlying such influence.