PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Middle Ages, Hunter-Gatherer, Grammatical Gender
16 Dec 2017
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In the middle ages, just seeing people dancing caused others to dance because they believed it was a social norm. Caused superstitions that when people danced they were under a spell. Social norms: unspoken but shared rules of conduct in a formal or informal group. Descriptive norms: norms that describe how people behave in a given situation: they typical behaviour that is expected/you expect to see in a given situation, the norm because everyone is doing it. Injunctive norms: norms that describe what people ought to do in a given situation, meaning the type of behaviour that is approved of in the situation: the norm because it"s what"s expected of you. People quickly acquire the norms of a new environment even if they don"t know them when they rst enter the environment. Pluralistic ignorance: each individual in the group privately rejects the group"s norms but believes that others accept these norms.
