Independent Behaviour

iINDEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR (12 MARK ESSAY) Some reasons people show signs of freelancer behaviour (i. e. do non conform or obey) is influence by many brokers, Gender being one of them. Neto carried out the same select as Asch, but this time all the participants were female (as in Aschs study they were all male). In Aschs study he tack together that 37% of the participants conformed, whereas Neto found that 59% conformed. However Aschs study was criticized for lack ecological validity and Netos study is a replication of Asch.As the participants were not in a natural situation Linz and Semykina took data from a contemplate of over 2,600 Russian employees between 2000 and 2003. They found that men are more(prenominal) than likely to have internal Locus of Control and a neediness for challenge and women more likely to exhibit external locus of defend and need for affiliation (belonging to a group). High Internal females earned more than external women. The fact on that point is a large sample sizing of 2600 means the findings are reliable, good sample size.However it can be argued that there is a potential cultural bias as the data was completely taken from Russian employees. When Asch debriefed his participants, he found a common factor of confidence in the people who hadnt conformed if someone felt confident in their judgments they were more able to resist group pressure. This idea is back up by Perin and Spencers study. They replicated Aschs study with engineering students. Conformity levels were a good deal lower. Perin and Spencer attributed this to the fact that engineers had confidence in their skills in making accurate observations.