PSYC 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fidgeting, Juggling, Stanford Prison Experiment
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Increase sense of belonging: clarify self-concept, efficiently distribute labour, provide safety. Consequences of groups: social norms are the expectations set for all group members, top-down, bottom-up, social roles: expectations for specific group members. Initech corp: president, secretary, salesperson, mere presence of others impacts our performance. Includes group members doing the same thing and when others are just watching us: co-action effects, audience effects. Co-action effect: triplett (1890, cycling speed positively related to presence of other cyclists. Another can thus be the means of releasing nervous energy for him that he cannot himself release . Experimental test (triplett, 1898: did simply having other actors doing same activity facilitate performance, sample = 40 children, alone, co-action, results: reeling co-actively vs. alone, 20 faster, 10 slower, 10 little affected . 2: frequent in athletic performance, ants dig 3x faster with other digging ants, dogs eat more when others are present eating, children faster at multiplication questions when tested with peers vs. alone.
