PSY BEH 104S Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Stanford Prison Experiment, Social Proof

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 104S
• Professor: Joey Cheng

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