PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Groupthink, Deindividuation, Social Loafing

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Sporin

Document Summary

A change in beliefs/behavior that occurs as the result of the presence of the other people around us. By asking for advice, our beliefs/behaviors can change as a result of the ideas that we hear from others: ppl conform b/c of: Informational conformity: we believe that other ppl have accurate info & we want to have knowledge: normative conformity: we want to be liked by others. Minority influence: a smaller # of individuals is able to influence opinions/behaviors of a larger group. They move their opinions/behaviors away from desires of influencer: social facilitation & social inhibition: Social facilitation: tendency to perform tasks better/faster in the presence of others. Social inhibition: tendency to perform tasks more poorly/slowly in the presence of others. The ability of a group to perform well is determined by: characteristics of the group members, how the group processes, events that occur while group is working on task.