PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sleep Deprivation, Availability Heuristic, Deindividuation
9 Aug 2018
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Deindividuation lead to shocking nasty and nice victims, destruction of a car in ny: social identity model of deindividuation, group norms. Obedience lead to over 60% of people shocking another person to 450 v: but a number of factors can moderate the likelihood of obedience (e. g. context, proximity of perceived authority figure / victim, influence of others). Thus ordinary people could be induced to act destructively (even in the absence of rewards or punishments). Such acts could thus not e blamed on the innately evil. Minority influence: history is shaped by individuals who change majority opinion: outline. Attributional biases: fundamental attribution error, actor-observer bias, attractiveness bias, cognitive heuristics (availability bias) We have discussed how we may be influenced by the presence of others (social influence). attitudes, and how our thoughts affect our behaviour. But social psychology is also interested in how we think about others (social perception) i. e. how we explain people"s behaviour, how we form beliefs and.
