PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Philip Zimbardo, Group Decision-Making, Deindividuation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Social psychology may be able to suggest strategies for promoting intergroup harmony and producing greater tolerance for outgroups. When there is a greater collective purpose, in which collaboration is needed, then negative attitude can alleviate. Later research showed that only a certain type of contact between hostile groups can lead to reduced prejudice and discrimination. Shared super ordinate goals, that require people to cooperate, reduce hostility between groups. Jigsaw classroom: person to person interaction is the tactic that brings the most successfully groups together. Aronson"s jigsaw classroom: students work together in mixed sex and mixed ethnic groups, in which each member of the group is an expert at a particular field. The power of social situation is much greater than what people believe. The importance of social behaviour was summed up by philip zimbardo, who said that it is difficult to remain a cucumber when those around us become pickles!