PSY220H1 Lecture : Chapter 10 notse
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Chapter 10: group refers to two or more people who are interacting and/or influencing one another, social facilitation, when people are in group they tend to perform better on simple task and poorly perform on complex tasks. participants cheered loudest when they thought they were alone, whereas they cheered 82% as intensely when they believed one other person was cheering and only 74% as intensely when they believed five others were also cheering. when people are deindividuated they are more likely to engage in socially undesirable behaviour: perspectives of deindividuation. weakens people"s inhibitions against performing harmful or socially disapproved actions. heightens people"s responsiveness to external cues which may be either negative or positive. Increases people"s adherence to norms that emerge in a group. prisoners simulation: the guards were more cruel and violent when they had sunglasses and had no name tag. deindividuation (no nametags) led to more aggression in the.
