PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Justin Bieber, Ophanim, Laugh Track

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Psyc 215 - lecture 16 informational influence. If everybody else jumped off a cliff, would you do it too? ~ every parent. Informational influence = taking others as a source of information about what is correct, proper, effect. We are influenced by the thoughts and behaviours of others. >what are other people doing, thinking, using, etc. Good review = you go to restaurant. The information we get from other people is influential on our thinking and behaviour. Led to widespread imitation (e. g. of clothing = young men started dressing. Book was banned in some places in europe. > after a well-publicized suicide, is there an increase in the suicide. > not manipulating variables, or doing case studies. > collect previously existing data and examine it. > month before publicized suicide, not much suicide. > month of the publicized suicide, stats very high. > corrects for the time of year/day of week, etc.