PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pluralistic Ignorance, Juvenile Delinquency, Norm (Social)
2 Mar 2013
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Chapter 8: social influence: norms, onformity, compliance and. Obedience: behaviour that is produced by the commands of authority figures social norms: unspoken but shared rules of conduct in a formal or informal group. Medical students" disease = when medical students learn about rare and unusual symptoms they often start diagnosing themselves with multiple disorders". Pluralistic ignorance (katz and allport): a particular type of norm misperception that occurs when each individual in the ground privately rejects the group"s norms , but believe that others accept these norms. Schachter study of the consequences of rejecting group norms asked groups of students to engage in a group decision-making task. Students met to discuss the case of johnny rocco, a juvenile delinquent who was awaiting sentence for a minor crime, and were supposed to determine the appropriate punishment for him. Why we conform: conformity can be produced by two distinct types of influence:
