PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Muzafer Sherif, Optical Illusion, Chameleon
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Being affected by how others act acting/thinking differently from the way you would act & think alone. Change in behaviour/belief to accord with others. Culture"s power to create & perpetuate arbitrary norms + processes of conformity. In dark room, 5ms in front of you point of light appears, then moves erratically & disappears. No way to judge distance give uncertain answer. Change estimates significantly group norm emerged. Retested a year later continued to support group norm. Confederate gives inflated estimate replaced by real subject replaced by new member. Views of reality not ours alone. Around happy people can make us feel happier mood linkage. Behaviour synchronizing natural tendency to mimic. Incline other person to like you/be helpful enhance social bonds. If behaviour mimicked is negative foster disliking. Damage to car windshields mass suggestibility. The sorrows of young werther goethe. Imitative suicidal behaviour the werther effect. Increase after well publicized suicides ex. The more publicity the greater the increase.
