PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Influence, Deindividuation, Social Loafing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Empathy: the ability to feel what others feel. When you like someone, you tend to express empathy for them by mimicking them. When someone mimics you, you interpret that as them expressing empathy for you, and you therefore like them. Informational: if everyone else agrees, they must be right. Normative: adjust your opinion in order to fit the norm because norms change. People in power know how much power they have, can sometimes abuse it. Norm: rules for accepted and expected behavior. Participants administered shocks to other participants when told by an authority figure, even though they clearly did not agree with it. Majorit(cid:455) of people follo(cid:449)ed orders i(cid:374) milgra(cid:373)(cid:859)s e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts. Reduces individual responsibility; an individual exerts less effort when part of a group as opposed to acting alone known as social loafing. Provides deindividuation: the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations. Promotes extremism/ group polarization: a group(cid:859)s i(cid:374)(cid:272)li(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e e(cid:374)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)ed through discussion.