PSYC 309 Chapter Notes -Disinhibition, Office Space, Dacher Keltner
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Lecture 23 november 28, 2013 social hierarchy: social interactions differences in power between individuals. [from office space: why is this guy trying to avoid his boss friday afternoon, tries to get out of the office before his boss comes around. In case we looked at studies of disinhibited behaviour, how did increase power affect dishibited behaviour in women, men: eating cookies (females), flirting (men) [from rudolph the red-nosed reindeer: apparent to social group that rudolph has red nose, laughing at him, enhance social ostracization (left out of group), soundtrack changes. Laughter is partly a result of evaluating some stimulus as funny, but that explanation is at best incomplete. Some people laugh when things are not funny, and the amount of laughter can vary widely even in response to a funny stimulus. This research was based on the assumption that one function of laughter is to strengthen social bonds and elicit liking.
