PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Normative Social Influence, Fundamental Attribution Error, Extreme Ways
16 Jan 2017
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Social processes, society and culture: conformity & the power of the situation. Conformity: adjusting our behavior to bring it in line with a group standard. Normative social influence: the group may not accept or approve of your behavior if you violate social norms. Informational social influence: the group may provide valuable information about the right way to act in a given situation. When were people more likely to conform: when there was a unanimous majority of 3 or 4 people. When were people less likely to conform: when there was a single person who dissented from the majority position. The influence of social roles: the stanford prison experiment. Fundamental attribution error: our tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors when explaining another"s behavior. Power of the situation in the news: seattle bridge jumper, looting, rioting.
