PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Realistic Conflict Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups, In-Group Favoritism

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Dwayne Pare

Document Summary

Note: steve joordens is a guest lecturer today. We have the desire to belong (even when we try to be different: we seek others that are different like us -> One participant and four confederates: confederates are actors in the experiment that are working for the researcher and usually play the role of another volunteer participant. The participants were told to correctly match the standard line with the comparison line that is the same length (see figure ->) When all of the confederates responded with the same wrong answer: some participants actually thought that the wrong answer was right, other participants said that they knew it was wrong but agreed with it anyway. A tv show where they try to see how easily it is to make people conform (it ends up being very easy) These studies display how humans are drawn to conformity, and following others. The milgram experiment ~ how people respond to authority.