Chapter 8: Group Influence Group Influence What Is a Group? Two or more people who‚ for longer than a few moments‚ interact with and influence one another and perceive one another as “us” Social Facilitation: How Are We Affected by the Presence of Others? The Mere Presence of Others Social facilitation Strengthening of dominant responses whether correct or incorrect in the presence of others Boosts performance on easy tasks Impairs performance on difficult tasks
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Superego‚ level of moral development‚ conformity‚ deindividuation‚ and modeling are a few factors that can help determine weather and adolescent wearing a masked costume will damage property if denied treats on Halloween. Superego is the part of personality that‚ according to Freud‚ represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. Superego could affect the adolescent’s decision if his superego is strong‚ if it is strong the child will
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ramifications‚ as evidenced from the enormous power mass protests can wield. Le Bon (1895) was the first person to introduce the concept of a ‘group mind’. His work came under much criticism‚ but it influenced social psychology in many ways‚ with later deindividuation theorists building on his work‚ as well as the social identity theory viewing crowd behaviour from another aspect. This essay aims to evaluate if anonymity in crowds is associated with a ‘loss of self’ according to all of the above perspectives
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Outline and evaluate two social psychological explanations There are two social psychological approaches to aggression. These are social learning theory (SLT) and deindividuation theory (DT). Both these theories stress that aggression is a learnt process‚ they believe that aggression is due to our nurture and not in our nature. They dispute the biological approach to aggression. Social learning theory was proposed by Alburt Bandura. He used the word modeling to explain how humans can quickly learn
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For many years mainstream social psychological research tended to concentrate on face-to-face‚ romantic love relationships among heterosexuals in contemporary western cultures. It’s logical for Psychologists to focus on certain types of relationships such as heterosexual ones as they are the dominant type of relationship in society. There is mixed support for similarity in same-sex couples. Kurdek’s early study found that there was very little similarity in gay couples‚ except for age. On the
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from others. Being anonymous in a crowd has the psychological consequence of reducing restraints and increasing behaviours that are usually inhibited. Prentice- Dunn and Rogers (1982) suggested that an increase in aggressive behaviour following deindividuation might be caused by the reduced privacy rather than public self- awareness‚ i.e. becoming less self-aware rather than being anonymous to
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a Unanimous Majority.’ Psychological Monographs: General and Applied. 70 (9) PP 1-70 [Online] Available from: http://libary.hud.ac.uk/summon [Accessed 4 December 2012] Beaman‚ A.L.‚ Diener‚ E.‚ Fraser‚ S.C.‚ Kelem‚ G.T. (1976) ‘Effect of deindividuation variables on stealing among Halloween trick-or-treaters.’ Journal of personality and social psychology. 37(2) PP178-183 Available at: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/33/2/178/ [Accessed 12 December 2012] Banks‚ C.‚ Haney‚ C.‚ Zimbardo
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The power of social influence has been a subject of extensive research (Hogg‚ 1992). The notion that groups working towards a mutual goal perform better than independent individuals has been largely accepted not only by social psychologists but also by employers (Abrams‚ Wetherell‚ Cochrane‚ Hogg & Turner‚ 2001). Employers for example would often suggest team building exercises because they recognize the importance of group cohesiveness and entitattivity (Baron‚ Brainscombe‚ & Byrne‚ 2009). Group
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yourself. (Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault‚ PhD) There are many theories of aggression‚ namely: Frustration-Aggression Theory Social Learning Theory Instinctive-Aggression Theory Relative Deprivation Theory Cue-Arousal Theory Excitation-Transfer Theory Deindividuation
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crowds produces a man losing his personal and social responsibility Freud described crowd behaviour as the unconscious ‘ID’ being released whilst the superego is supressed. Early studies paved way for idea of deindividuation. Zimbardo (1970) Created model of deindividuation Anonymity = loss of personal responsibility Social pressures to conform and behave relieved. Diener (1980) added to zimbardos framework stating that in crowds we have poor self-monitoring and this in turn reduces
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