PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Peer Pressure, White Coat, Philip Zimbardo

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: markherbert

Document Summary

We often behave like others around us. Chameleon effect: tendency to unconsciously mimic the expression, gestures, and postures of others: examples. Many social forces at work that influence our behaviour in social context (some subtle and some not so subtle: social norms. Norms: social rules about how members of a society are expected to act. Others are implicit (not openly stated: e. g. , you know how to ride in an elevator although no one actually told you how. Descriptive or injunctive: descriptive norms are agreed-on expectations about what members of a group do. Injunctive norms are agreed-on expectations about what members of a groups should do. More likely to follow injunctive norms if they are brought to their attention. O(cid:272)ial role: a set of (cid:374)or(cid:373)s as(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed to a perso(cid:374)"s so(cid:272)ial positio(cid:374) E(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d duties asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s positio(cid:374) i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) Negative effect: people are often limited by their social roles.