SOP 3004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Group Polarization, Gary Neville, Truism

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOP 3004
• Professor: Colin Smith

Document Summary

Definition: two or more people who interact and are interdependent; most groups have between 2 and 6 members. Because if there isn"t interactions between all members, it doesn"t technically qualify as a group . Group members tend to be similar to one another. Age - not just because of where you are in school for some reason, we don"t have 60 year old friends. Values - people of the same age tend to hold the same values and attitudes. The need to belong theory (leary and baumeister) Drive to form/maintain lasting, positive, interpersonal relationships. Groups are important to our sense of identity - help us define who we are. Partially through feeling distinct from other groups (i really don"t like people that are outside my circle jets fans) Uf student, pi kapp (part of our groups) The self-esteem we get through our group memberships. If you"re not feeling good about yourself, you can fall back on group-level identities.