PSYC 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Social Influence
29 Oct 2016
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Psychological benefits t being a part of a collective. Not looking at people around us to assert ourselves; becoming a part of a mob. Phenomenon when people step into a role where responsibility is no longer in conscious. Completely losing track of who they are as an individual: potential for deviation. Relationship of disguise and how it makes them behave. Study: rehm: children as participants, manipulating what they wore; street clothes vs. orange shirts, taking away individual identity, higher accounts of aggression within the orange shirts. Working with a group and with an audience. Social loafing free riders: riding on the shoulders of everyone else; in-balance of group dynamic. Two ways to react to free riders: anger, compassion. Need to know the relationship of the group to infer of what emotion is going to be expressed. Increase commitment to the task: offering a bonus to the group at a group level.
