PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Groupthink, Robert Sternberg, Social Loafing
12 Mar 2016
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Relaively stable and enduring evaluaions of things and people. Aitudes can change to jusify new behaviours. Cogniive dissonance: emoional discomfort as a result of holding contradictory beliefs or holding a belief that contradicts behaviour: we change our beliefs to jusify (match) our acions. Obedience: the act of following direct commands given by an authority igure. Factors that reduce obedience: a non-obedient person, less presige of experimenter, salience of vicim"s sufering, proximity to the vicim, responsibility placing the learner"s hand on a shock plate to administer the shock. Groupthink: faulty group decision making as a result of trying too hard to agree. Why do we help: altruism: self-sacriicing behaviour carried out for the beneit of others. 38 witnesses to the stabbing and murder that occurred over a 30 minute ime span. Reproducive biology may be a reason for gender diferences in selecion of sexual partners.
