PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: In-Group Favoritism, Peer Pressure, Candid Records
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The need to belong (peer pressure: social psychology is about thinking how humans interact and the inluence humans have on one another, a social examinaion of the humane experience. Humans are social creatures; even those of us who strive to be unique sill want to be a part of a group o o o. Any baby born into the world is helpless. Needs humans to come to aid immediately and stay by its side for a long ime. In fact, several experiments show that humans have a strong tendency to conform when they ind themselves in groups o. We seem to seek out others that are diferent like us ex. Have a way of doing things those around as do-conformity. Concept of confederates: people have inluence on one another, some people in the experiment are in on the experiments. 4 people pick the wrong answer and then the 5th person also looked at the wrong answer.
