PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Mania, Stanley Milgram, Cognitive Dissonance
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Informational pressures we depend on others for validation for our re- sponses; sometimes other have more information or better information than we do, so we trust them. Normative pressures we want to be liked by the group as a whole, so we change our position; we don"t want to be kicked out of the group. More attractive people are no happier than less attractive people. Romantic love: passion, sexual desire, mania, not long-lasting. When your partner makes a mistake, we often blame the mistake on the sit- uation as a whole, as opposed to the partner him/herself. We often adopt a rose-coloured view of our partners. He was interested in the holocaust and other war crimes and their trials. He studied the willingness of people to obey commands, and designed a study in which he did not disclose the full details of the study, as participants would behave differently.
