PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Spring 2018 Lecture 15 - Centrality, Contingency theory, Océ
20 Sep 2018
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Two or more people who share a common de nition and evaluation about themselves and behave in accordance with the de nition. Have an awareness of shared meaning and identity. Performing tasks that individuals cannot do by themselves. Providing a social identity and de ning a location in society and a social meaning. Group living gave evolutionary pressure for brain evolution. Brain evolution made possible the maintenance of a larger group. The neocortex size (relative to the rest of the brain) especially relevant for higher order information processing is correlated with correlated with mean group size among primates. A primate species with a greater group size on the average has a larger neocortex relative average group size of the species to the rest of the brain. Attitudinal and behavioural patterns characteristics of a group. Tends to provide a uniformity about a group. Acting on the individual to remain in the group.
