PSY-335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Group Cohesiveness, Norm (Social), Ingroups And Outgroups
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Two or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence each other. Help us resolve ambiguity in the social world. Group cohesiveness: qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking between members. The more cohesive a group is, the more its members are likely: Diversity: group members tend to be alike in age, sex, beliefs and opinions. Attracted to and likely to recruit similar others. Groups operate in ways that encourage similarity in the members. Social facilitation: people do better on simple tasks, and worse on complex tasks, when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated. Social loafing: people do worse on simple tasks but better on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated. Sometimes being surrounded by others allows us to slack off (or.
