Social influence and external feedback control in humans

This article aims to describe social influence by elucidating the cognitive, affective, and motivational processes that occur when an individual experiences attempt at being influenced. We hypothesized these are part of a feedback loop system in individual. This involves situation (input), goal state (reference), comparator, selection mechanism, predictor, action (output). Each element can become target influence, different types be classified explained how elements targeted. For instance, attempting persuade another person with strong arguments targets affected individual, while coercion violence action. In summary, this categorize, order, explain phenomena research using framework focusing on influenced individual.