PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Loafing, Cognitive Load, Groupthink
8 Jan 2021
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Why do people join and identify with groups? pg. Increasing uncertainty about the self increases group identification but only when the group is high in entitativity. 9: group processes: social identity theory: group identities are an important part of self-definition and a key source of self-esteem, person"s understanding of who they are is shaped by group memberships. Ingroup bias: tendency to favor groups we belong to more than those that we don"t: people increase self-esteem by identifying with successful or high-status groups even when they haven"t personally accomplished anything. The prisoner"s dilemma: tit-for-tat strategy: reciprocating whatever the other person did last. When do people cooperate: several factors nudge people toward cooperation or competition, situation (ex. whether prisoner dilemma was called community game vs. Why do people cooperate: biological basis of trust is crucial for cooperation, biological marker of trust is oxytocin which is released when people trust you so you are more likely to behave in a trustworthy way.
