PSYA02H3 Lecture : PSYCHOLOGY Lecture 23 Cultural Evolution, Lifestyle and Self-control.doc

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Psychology lecture 23: cultural evolution, lifestyle and self-control. Viewpoint on a certain issue will become more extreme if you go to a group that also believes in that viewpoint i. e. environmentalism. Group polarization tendency to become more extreme in their view in a group. No labels forget labels in terms of groups, just solve the problem. Every now and then, something happens in a group that is dangerous groupthink. 1960s jfk and the government and cuba bomb cuba because they were communist. People blindly follow a leader without thinking about it and this is a result of groupthink. Groupthink nature is happening in syria people doesn"t not think the leadership is not right but leadership is morally right and they are willing to kill their own people. Groupthink arises from a cohesive group which is isolated from the rest of the world, has a strong and powerful leader, external threat, low esteem, etc.