PS102 Lecture Notes - Decision-Making, Groupthink, Group Polarization
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Milgram"s obedience: teacher (participant) learner (confederate) paradigm. Participants were told they would be randomly assigned to either. Teacher would shock learner for incorrect answer: teacher shocks the learner. Slight show to xxx danger (450v: obedience the norm. Despite health professionals expected participant not to shock up to. Obedience goes down when there is no authority figure present or when. Bystander effect: help is less likely given when people are in groups vs. alone. With a group: 38: diffusion of responsibility. Social loafing: workload is reduced when people are in groups vs. alone, reduced efficiency. Organizing a group is hard to coordinate: reduced effort. Loafing goes down if individuals feel that they matter. Decision making in groups: group polarization (becoming more extreme when in groups vs. alone) Prejudice people become more so in a group and non-prejudice people become more egalitarian: groupthink (when a group suppresses disagreement) Morality based decisions we vs. them stereotyping.
