Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Job Satisfaction, Deindividuation, Social Facilitation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Motivated people to become involved in social change. Those who identity strongly with a group are more likely to take part in social action: help establish social norms. Similarity people are attractions to groups of similar others and groups tend to establish ground, rules, making members more similar. Social norms implicit or explicit rules that specify how the group members should behave. Group cohesiveness qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking among them: concern with maintaining good relations can get in the way of finding good solutions to problems. Possibly because of higher level of relational interdependence: tendency to loaf is higher in western cultures. Transactive memory the combined memory of two people that is more efficient than the memory of either individual. Members don"t voice contrary opinions because they don"t want to run the high morale. Quick to criticize anyone who speaks out.