PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Karl Popper, Totalitarianism, Role Conflict

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Nash, Kyle

Document Summary

Plato"s philosopher king is the lover of wisdom (philos sophia) Ship of states and allegory of the cave (coming soon) You need a navigator (star-gazer) to steer the ship. Karl popper blamed this idea for 20th century totalitarian leaders (hitler, stalin) Averaged together, these individual biases cancel out. Democracy, wikipedia, the rational market and laissez-faire economics etc. etc. The effect of the group on individual behavior. Group in social psychology defined as three or more people who interact and influence one and another (e. g. cartwright & zander, 1968; lewin, 1948; levine & moreland, E. g. , pm or president with cabinet of ministers, community members meeting to solve a problem, campus clubs, etc. Groups vary in size, tightness, longevity, etc. Patients sitting in a doctor"s waiting room. Defining a group difficult because sometimes same aggregate can fit the bill, while at other times it may not. Groups provide various benefits to the individual (e. g. baumeister & leary, 1995;