PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Authoritarianism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Fraternities And Sororities
29 Apr 2016
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Social norms influence your values, beliefs and behaviours. Regulate behaviour in socially acceptable ways (waiting in line, raising your hand to ask a question) Social norms: unspoken but shared rules of conduct in a formal or informal group. 2 types of norms: descriptive norms: how people behave in a given situation. Clothes you wear, how much you study: injunctive (prescriptive) norms: what people ought to do in a given situation type of behaviour that is approved of in a situation. Going back to attitudes vs. behaviour - don"t always reflect. We should report cheating to the prof, but we don"t always. Emotional contagion; caused partly by people"s tendency to look at others in ambiguous situations - hear an ill- ness is going around, feel symptoms psychosomatically. People are most likely to acquire norms in a new situation - look to older/more established group members. Aren"t always consciously aware of how our behaviour is influenced by social norms.
