PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Deindividuation, Social Loafing, Suggestibility

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Gistav le bon (1896: suggested than in crowds people submerge in a very primitive mind, described 3 characteristics of crowds: People respond to the cues available in the environment, most of the time are destructive and aggressive. When people become destructive, it starts to spread very quickly in a: he described crowd as a source of power as well crowd. He argued that giving a simple message to a crowd, then you can control the crowd energy in your own goals, make it useful. Allport (1924) was highly critical of le bon and argued: the individual in the crowd behaves just as he would behave alone only more so, suggested that in crowd people reveal their true nature. Social facilitation: norman triplett cyclists in a group, cycle faster together. Deindividuation refers to loss of sense of individual responsibility and reduction of inhibition due to joining a group: zimbardo prison study need to know the details.