Why Are Women More Likely To Conform
Title: Research report on gender differences in conforming behaviour at traffic lights.
Abstract
This study was carried out to examine gender differences in relation to conformity at pedestrian crossing. The hypothesis of this study was that females were more likely to conform than men at pedestrian crossing. This study involved recording all pedestrians that used the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Aungier Street and Cuffe Street over a 30 minute period. The total number of pedestrians observed over that time was 156, of that total,
75 were females and 81 were males. This study was a field study. The observer recorded the participants under four categories. Females that crossed on a green man, males that crossed on a green man. Females …show more content…
Freud speculated the difference in self-and- social value systems between females and males, he proposed that’s males develop a more rigid and idealistic conception of right and wrong than females. One report suggests that males are more likely to conform under group pressure than females. In that, males as individuals are not likely to conform whereas in groups it is more persuasibility than conformity. “Research in persuasion, as well as conformity, has also other variables to be
Significantly related to conformity or persuasibility among males than females” ( Smith 1970).
Another study on conformity, it showed higher rates of females conforming. In that report, it suggested that female’s judge conformity as being more positive and self-defining act.
“Conformity may lead to stronger, more certain identity” (Santee & Jackson 1982). Females make both attributional and normative identity judgments about conformity that lead to its more frequent enactment.
This study will use the hypothesis that females are more likely to conform than at pedestrian crossing than males. In this paper, evidence from the observer’s field study will be
Abstract
This study was carried out to examine gender differences in relation to conformity at pedestrian crossing. The hypothesis of this study was that females were more likely to conform than men at pedestrian crossing. This study involved recording all pedestrians that used the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Aungier Street and Cuffe Street over a 30 minute period. The total number of pedestrians observed over that time was 156, of that total,
75 were females and 81 were males. This study was a field study. The observer recorded the participants under four categories. Females that crossed on a green man, males that crossed on a green man. Females …show more content…
Freud speculated the difference in self-and- social value systems between females and males, he proposed that’s males develop a more rigid and idealistic conception of right and wrong than females. One report suggests that males are more likely to conform under group pressure than females. In that, males as individuals are not likely to conform whereas in groups it is more persuasibility than conformity. “Research in persuasion, as well as conformity, has also other variables to be
Significantly related to conformity or persuasibility among males than females” ( Smith 1970).
Another study on conformity, it showed higher rates of females conforming. In that report, it suggested that female’s judge conformity as being more positive and self-defining act.
“Conformity may lead to stronger, more certain identity” (Santee & Jackson 1982). Females make both attributional and normative identity judgments about conformity that lead to its more frequent enactment.
This study will use the hypothesis that females are more likely to conform than at pedestrian crossing than males. In this paper, evidence from the observer’s field study will be