PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Influence
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We are constantly influenced by the people around us. We are very likely to conform to the norms of society. Asch studies- confederates pretend to be subjects in which they convince a subject that a. Compliance, conformity, and obedience- when do we conform? previously shown line matches a different one. 1/3 of trials- subject conformed to the wrong conclusion of confederates. Shows that we agree and conform with social pressures. Stanford prison study- half undergrads were assigned as prisoners and other half. In 2 weeks, guards had become abusive to prisoners, behaving sadistically to them assigned as guards, looks at power of social roles. Being randomly assigned to a role makes you manifest that role. Banality of evil- good normal people in wrong situations do horrible things/become bad. With no commands, <3% obeyed and held them there. Baseline was that about 60% held learner there against will just because they are told to by an authority.
