PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Deindividuation, Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Loafing
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When attitudes and behaviors don"t match each other: ex) i believe that smoking is bad for your health but still smoke it. We act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) clash. To rationalize, to justify, to stay with our behaviors: we like to keep our behaviors, we change our attitudes for our behavior (we bring our attitudes in line along with our behavior) Conformity: changing to reflect standard group expectations: this is necessary, we all conform even though we are nonconformists. Charter and and colleagues (1999: demonstrated chameleon effect with college students, automatic mimicry helps people to empathize and feel what others feel. We mimic other people automatically (mirror neurons) When we mimic, we feel more connected: the more we mimic, the greater our empathy, and the more people tend to like us, conformity. Solomon asch conformity experiment: 3 lines on the left equal to standard line, people conform really quickly.
