PSYA02H3 Lecture : Chapter 15 Lecture 5 - lecture 23- class notes and lecture notes

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

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Lecture 23: crowd behavior, lynching"s, during the period b/w 1890= 1930, over 4000 people in the south of the. U. s. were murdered by mob action without a lawful trial. when people experience aggression, when they don"t get what they want. u can do bad things because u cant be identified. bowl of candy in from of house www. notesolution. com. knew how much candy was in the bowl. the person at the house would tell how cute the costume was and what"s your name no longer deinvidualzated. other situation- didn"t ask for name- devidualize: take candy from bowl and close the door behind u. how many kids take more than one candy as opposed to taking more. kids to gave their name were more likely to take one candy that those that weren"t identified: study on deindividuation and baiting a suicide. do the onlookers all say to stop the suicide person.