PSY-2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Social Facilitation
Document Summary
Informational social influence: conform because they accept the opinions of others. Obedience authority: obedience behavior following the rules or instructions from those of higher, extreme obedience, influences on obedience. Location of experimenter (if the experimenter was in the room, they were far more likely to be obedient than if the experimenter were in another room and only giving commands by their voice) Location of victim (less obedience when the participant could see the. Victim , and even less obedience when they had to hold their hand) Not being able to see your actions leads to more obedience, and vice versa for when you see your actions. Morality (having a strong sense of what is right: group influence. Deindividuation tendency to engage in uncharacteristic behavior when stripped of usual identity. Social facilitation enhanced performance on easy tasks in the presence of others.
