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Social Psychology

Social Psychology. The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. In other words, how does being in a group change how we behave?. Key Question. If an authority figure ordered you to hurt another person, would you do it?

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Social Psychology

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  1. Social Psychology • The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. • In other words, how does being in a group change how we behave?

  2. Key Question • If an authority figure ordered you to hurt another person, would you do it? • Can you think of an authority figure in history who ordered people to hurt others?

  3. Today, you will read an article about this experiment and watch a clip of ordinary people asked to cause pain to others by an authority figure…

  4. Would an ordinary person hurt others if an authority figure said to do so? • Stanley Milgram wanted to find out. • In 1961 he carried out the famous Milgram experiment. • The results were truly shocking.

  5. Wrap-up Question • Describe a situation, not discussed in class today, in which someone might defy his/her moral beliefs because an authority figure told them to do so.

  6. Warm-Up • Describe a time that you were part of a loud, possibly rowdy crowd. • How did this crowd seem affect your behavior?

  7. Social Facilitation: Improved performance of tasks because of the presence of others. • Most common example, Can you guess it? • SPORTS! • Track runners run faster when competing against others, for example.

  8. Another Example? • Traffic Lights!

  9. Cars Take off Faster from a Traffic Light when there are other cars present

  10. Social Loafing: The tendency for people to exert less effort toward completing a task when they are apart of a group than when they are performing a task alone. • The famous experiment that dealt with social loafing was the tug-of-war experiment.

  11. University of Massachusetts students put forth 82% as much effort when they were blindfolded and believed three others were pulling behind them.

  12. What would you do if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you would never get caught?

  13. We lose moral inhibitions when we feel anonymous (hey, nobody focusing on me as an individual) and excited. • This phenomenon is called deindividuation. • Wedeindividuatewhen in a large crowd. This is also known as mob mentality and explains riots.

  14. Other examples of deindividuation are • Road Rage, because we feel excited and anonymous when we are angered while driving.

  15. It is the car that makes us feel anonymous. That is also why people in the car do this…

  16. A final example of Deindivuduation: • Wearing War Paint to feel anonymous during war. • Obviously the battle adds the excitement.

  17. Group Polarization:The strengthening of a group’s shared attitudes over time. • Examples: • Fraternities and Sororities • Political groups • Religious groups

  18. Group Think:The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. • Groupthink tends to happen in new groups such as new Presidential administrations. • People jump on the bandwagon of a bad idea because they think that everyone else likes the idea and don’t want to rock the boat. In reality nobody likes this idea.

  19. In fact it is a terrible idea. • Nobody is asked to list pros and cons • No outside experts are called in to give an objective opinion. • A bad decision gets made. • Historical examples: • Bay of Pigs • Watergate

  20. Self-fulfilling prophecy: act in a way that unintentionally makes a belief come true. • Ex. A teacher is told her students are all geniuses. She challenges them more and the are very successful that year. • Ex. I think Jane is mad at me (she’s not). I give Jane the cold shoulder. Jane is mad at me.

  21. Thought Question • Do you believe that believing you are going to have a great day in the morning is likely to make that happen?

  22. Normative social influence: Influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.

  23. Informational social influence: Influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality. Ex. Believing a statistic without researching it Ex. Believing what others say about a person that you have never met.

  24. Wrap-up Question • Explain how at least 3 of the terms covered today might apply to a high school football game.

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