PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Normative Social Influence, Groupthink, Communication Problems
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Overview: why do people join groups, group influence- how it affects behaviour, group decisions, conflict and cooperation. What is a group: group: a collection of two or more people who interact with each other and are interdependent, in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to rely on each other. **important to be interacting and depend on each other** Church groups, clubs at school, spots teams, etc. Social groups certain aspects that make them powerful influences on other"s behaviour: usually have between 2 and 6 members (relatively small groups) Explicit and implicit rules on how to behave with each other: have well-defined social roles. Stanford prison experiment: qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking among them. Triplett (1898)- one of the first psychological experiments: cyclists" times were faster when racing together than when racing alone, children wound a fishing reel faster when they worked as co-actors than when alone.
