PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Dissonance
1 Nov 2016
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A group exists when two or more people define themselves as members of it and when its existence is. Group behaviour recognized by at one other (brown, 2000) Some central elements in conceptualisation of a group: common goal, social structure (who does what in a group, face-to-face (or some form of) interaction, self-categorisatio(cid:374) (cid:894)defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s self as a (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er of the group(cid:895) Individualist (e. g. , port) do not confuse with individualist society. There is nothing more to a group than the people who comprise it. There is something more to a group than just the people who comprise it. When people come together the way they behave and think change. In a group we end up making riskier decisions. The way you behave in a group is different from the way you tend to behave in a group. Norms- each group will have its own norms. What we as members of the group need to do to fit in.
