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Social Influence on memory of Sydney Olympic 2000
Abstract
Our decision-making might change as a consequence of interacting with a single individual or a group of people. We tend to have same opinion with others when we are in a group. An experiment about the effect of social influence was conducted. 563 participants were asked to recall how many medals Australia got in Sydney Olympics 2000. Participants were given ¡¥Low¡¦ (50%), ¡¥Accurate¡¦ or ¡¥High¡¦ (150%) examples. Result shows that participants tend to be influenced by examples given to them. Participants who were given ¡¥Low¡¦ examples had lower answers than those given ¡¥Accurate¡¦ examples while participants given ¡¥High¡¦ examples had higher answers than those given ¡¥Accurate¡¦ examples.

In our daily life, can we ignore to everyone and only do the things that you thought? Absoulty not. There are so many things in our life are affected by the presence of others. For example, after having a......

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