Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Disinhibition, Candid Records, Social Influence
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Agenda: conforming to the majority, obedience to authority. Does tv violence cause aggression: maybe. Discriminate fantasy from real life (e. g. use of special effects) Children less aggressive, even at 1 year follow-up. Social influence: norms: conventions, customs and laws that apply to a group"s behaviour. Conformity: a change in attitude, behaviour or belief brought about by the real or imagined pressure from others. One accepts them and go along with it. Don"t believe it but it"s the right thing to do, go with the flow or be an outcast. Group pressure, but remain by one"s own beliefs, don"t get moved, Influenced by the group, but do the opposite, trolling the group, not going along, but influenced by them. Our behaviour may be shaped by models, even in absence of direct intentional influence: response disinhibition. Increase in suicides following 35 highly publicized suicides in 1950-1969 (phillips, Response facilitation: model performs legal behaviour then we copy.