PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Group Polarization, Hourglass Figure, Pluralistic Ignorance

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Social psychology how people inluence others" behaviours and aitudes. Explains group behaviour peer pressure and the tendency to act like the people around you. Occurs when we change ourselves to coincide with a group norm. Always need conformity in society to funcion safely and efecively. Normal social interacion conformity: obeying traic laws, waiing in line, answering people in the language they addressed you, etc. Someimes it can be harmful though bullies bullying because others do it. Usually in groups because they think several people are more knowledgeable than one, or are scared of appearing deviant. Informaional inluence: people conform because they think others are right in their judgements. It"s natural for people to think a group is smarter than just one for diicult tasks. Normaive inluence: people conform because they"re scared of being disliked or ridiculed leaving people hurt and alone. Private conformity: when a person experiences changes in behaviours and beliefs.