PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ear Pain, Copycat Suicide
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Conformity: a change in behaviour or belief to accord with others. 6. 2 describe the classic conformity and obedience studies. Mood linkage: being around happy people can help us feel happier. The chameleon effect: another social contagion, which is unconscious feeling that, inclines you to feel what the other person feels. Mimicry would incline the other person to like you and be helpful to you and to others (enhance social bonds, which also lead to donating more money) The werther effect: publicized suicide stories increase the suicidal behaviors in the society. We would still be conformed in an even less ambiguous situation compare to. The factors that breed obedience (more like what effect obedience) The obedience rate drops when the confederate student is seen by the teacher. Soldiers are easier to obey when they kill with the more distant artillery or aircraft weapons.
