PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fundamental Attribution Error, Milgram Experiment, Hazing
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Individualistic: don"t have a great track record of how elderly are treated, treated badly. Collectivists: elderly see old people as wise people who"s approval is needed. Lie to ourselves and feel better than admit that to. Why do behaviours change attitudes: self-presentation (impression management, self-justification (cognitive dissonance, self-perception. Nurses obeyed the doctors order because of authority. When one nurse stood up the rest of them stood up. It"s hard to be the first: knowledge and social support increase the likelihood of resistance to authority. Norm formation: norms can be arbitrary, pervasive and unintentional, norm violation examples. What you"re raised with, unconsciously taught it. Never had to learn them, do them by question. Some are established over time and last for generations. Why do we form groups: evolutionary adaptiveness, those who weren"t in groups didn"t survive or reproduce, primal fear of rejection, despair, death (not true anymore, conform even when there is no reason to.
