PSYC 315 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9, 10: Social Loafing, Physical Attractiveness, Reciprocal Liking
15 Sep 2016
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Chapter 9: group processes: influence in social groups. What is group: group-two or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence each other. Dyad- group of 2 people: people join groups because it allows us to accomplish objectives that would be more difficult to meet individually. Groups provide a lens through which we can understand the world and our place in it: groups help establish social norms, the explicit or implicit rules defining what is acceptable behavior. Social roles can be so powerful that they overwhelm our persona identities to the point that we become the role we are playing: zimbardo prison experiment. Planned to observe students for 2 weeks to see whether they began to act like real prison guards and prisoners. If a group is formed on primarily social reasons then the more cohesive the group.
