PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.2-6.6: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Sunk Costs
6 Dec 2016
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Robert zajonc: said presence of others increases arousal, which hinders complex tasks performance but facilitates well-practiced ones. Children even acted aggressively to ppl dressed as a clown. Aggression: relational: personal interactions attempting to make others dislike someone (ex. spreading rumours), more common in women, hostile: directly confrontational (ex. hitting them, yelling at them), more common in men. Self-perception theory: (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e spe(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)sight i(cid:374)to oursel(cid:448)es, so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es have to figure out who we are by assessing our behaviour. Conformity: muzafer sherif: conducted experiments w autokinetic effect in 1930s. In pitch black room, small dot of light appears to move sporadically for a few seconds. Over several days of testing, your responses will gradually converge w the others despite diff starting points. Norm formation: leads to convergence in behaviour, even in presence of outliers (ex. sitcoms using laugh tracks: solomon asch: investigated why ppl so easily converge toward a norm.
