PYB202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Comparison Theory, Normative Social Influence, Stereotype

• School: QUT
• Department: Psychology and Counselling
• Course: PYB202
• Professor: Unknown

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Groups perform many tasks together, one of the most important being group decision making. The course of our lives is largely determined by the kind of decisions that are made in groups for example, parliaments, juries and groups of friends. Social psychologists have long been interested in the social processes involved in group decision making and whether or not groups make better (or different) decisions than do individuals. There exists a variety of models which relate to the distribution of initial opinions in a decision-making group as opposed to the group"s final decision. Some of these models are complex computer-simulation models whilst others are expressed in formalised mathematical style and are more immediately related to actual real-life groups. Davis"s (1973) social decisions schemes model identifies a small number of explicit or implicit decision-making rules that groups can adopt. First shift the group ultimately adopts a decision consistent with the direction of the first shift in opinion.