PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jane Elliot, Realistic Conflict Theory, Peer Pressure

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

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Lec 13: february 24, 2016 the social animal. We all want to be part of a group. Humans have strong tendency to conform when they ind themselves in groups. Conformity efect doing what people around us do. Confederate when paricipants are playing along" and not really in the experiment. Two roles rigged so subject is always teacher, confederate is always student. Teacher will ask learner quesions, and when student gets something wrong, they get an electric shock and each ime the shock gets worse. Looking to see how far the teacher would coninue shocking the person. This was ater ww2 milgram thought germans were always following authority, wanted to see if americans were the same: 2/3 of paricipants went all the way. Depersonalizaion: the more distant you are from someone, the easier it is for you to do something to them. In group: us" the people with whom one shares a common idenity.