PSYC 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Amygdala, Stanford Prison Experiment, Social Loafing
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The foot-in-the-door phenomenon: the tendency to be more likely to agree to a large request after agreeing to a small one. Affect on attitudes: people adjust their attitudes along with their actions, liking the people they agreed to help, disliking the people they agreed to harm: role playing affects attitudes. In arranged marriages, people often come to have a deep love for the person they marry. A(cid:272)tors say they (cid:862)lose the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es(cid:863) i(cid:374) roles. Participants in the stanford prison study ended up adopting the attitudes of whatever roles they were randomly assigned to; (cid:862)priso(cid:374)ers(cid:863) had re(cid:271)ellious dislike of the (cid:862)guards. (cid:863) When we play a role, even if we know it is just pretending, we eventually tend to adopt the attitudes that go with the role, and become the role. Social influence: conformity: mimicry and norms, obedience: factors and lessons, group situations and group behavior, social facilitation, social loafing, polarization, deindividuation, groupthink, the power of individuals.
