PSY 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 53: Group Polarization, Deindividuation, In-Group Favoritism
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>> adjusting one"s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard normative social influence. >> influence resulting from a person"s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval norm. >> an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. >> improved performance of tasks in the presence of others. >> occurs with simple or well-learned tasks but not with tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered social loafing. >> tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable. >> loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity group polarization. >> enhancement of a group"s prevailing attitudes through discussion within the group groupthink. >> mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives self-fulfilling prophecy.
