PSY-0013 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Loafing, Stanford Prison Experiment, Deindividuation
1 Mar 2016
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Why join a group: group: set of individuals who interact over time and have shared fate, goals, or identity. Differ by extent to which they"re seen as distinct entities (how groupy they are) Collectives: people engaging in common activity, but little direct interaction w/ one another: humans may have innate need to belong for survival/reproduction. Social brain hypo: size of primate"s brains evolved because of unusually complex social worlds: gain greater sense of personal/social id when in groups. Key features of groups: roles, norms, and cohesiveness: roles: set of expected behaviors, formal or informal. Problem w/ groups: mismatch in skills and roles. Roles are beneficial more ambiguous the role is, worse performance. Sometimes group members can become so absorbed by role that they lose themselves (stanford prison study: norms: rules of conduct for members, formal or informal. Groups can exert strong conformity pressures on individuals who deviate from norms. Perceive/treat those who deviate harshly (threaten uniformity/social id)
