PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disinhibition, Kurt Lewin, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Social norms: advantages of social norms, herd mentality, conforming is contagious. Social contagion: compulsion to join and conform to big crowds, mass psychogenic illness. In unfamiliar situations: people are concerned with displaying correct behavior, people are anxious to fit in, theory of informational and normative influence. Solomon asch and normative social influence: we conform to gain social acceptance and avoid rejection. Fitting in beats being right: with no confederate 98% accuracy, with confederates 37% wrong, conformity increases when, majority size increases. Stimuli are ambiguous: majority is one"s ingroup, proportion of women increase, temne people and innuits. Food accumulation hypothesis: tenne have one predictable crop per year. Innuits are constantly searching for food individualistic versus collectivistic conformity: the self versus needs of the group. Ironic conformity: hippies and goth, the function of social roles, tell us how to at in various situations, profoundly influence behavior in uncertain conditions, the self can disappear in to a social role.
