PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Minimal Group Paradigm, Stanford Prison Experiment, Include Guard
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38 witnesses were reported to have done nothinig when she was murdered. Groups can form along the most minimal grounds. Stanford prison experiment shows how people conform to expectations of certain roles. Otherwise similar students behaved in accordance with the expectation of the group within a couple days. Tajfel and turner invented the "minimal group paradigm" Showed that people will still favor their group at the expense of a difference group. Members watched videos in which a face formed from a mannequin/doll into a human. Asked to judge the point at which the pictured individual "has a mind", has feelings/emotions, etc. People judged members of in-group (as defined by minimal group procedure) to be human based on less evidence than they did for members of an out-group. Out-group members were seen as less likely to have minds given the equivalent blend of real and artificial features. Social identity and group versions of trolley problem.
