PSYCO342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deindividuation, Social Proof, Indep
25 Apr 2018
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Psyco 342: social influence conformity and group influence. Several factors largest mass suicide: complacent, highly persuadable told to commit suicide to shed body, marshall applewhite trusted by followers, essentially lilke jesus; et connector. Identify so strongly with people who are doing something, you are more likely to do it because you want to fit in. U(cid:374)io(cid:374) of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d, (cid:374)ot of flesh: awakening after 6 mos entry into kingdom of heaven before death. Thoughts of leaving boredom, lack of vitality, start having doubts due to nothing actually happeingin level, leaving with shame and guilt doubts about who he was not happy, reached self-hate not succeeding from human: going public due to having less people. Strong social pressure to behave a certain way: criterion of movement to a contradictory position (cid:272)o(cid:374)tradi(cid:272)tory to a(cid:374)other group"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, act differently than when alone, conformatity by omission (failing to act do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to (cid:271)e sha(cid:373)ed(cid:895)
