PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dictator Game, Egocentrism, Deindividuation
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Actual: person will never really know who you are. Illusory: feeling of invisibility but ppl can see you and could know who you were. Piaget explains it as egocentrism and uses the kids playing hide&seek example and he argues that we never really outgrow our egocentrism as adults so we think ppl can"t see us. 1 they manipulated the brightness of the room but no diff. in actual anonymity and did im- possible matrices for 19681, and ppl in the dim room were more likely to cheat. 2 some participants were given dark sunglasses and others clear ones to wear & the ones wearing dark ones took more 19681 on the computer dictator game. Meaning they think there"s a middle variable that links the sunglasses to selfishness, thinking another variable explains how the other 2 are linked. In this case it was perceived anonymity that linked the 2 together. The power of the situation, change the sitch >change b.
