PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: White Privilege, Stereotype, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Lecture 24: Social Relations 06-01-2018
Group Behavior:
Social Facilitation
Social Loafing
Deindividuation
Groupthink
• Social facilitation – individual performance is intensified when you are observed
by others
o For newbies: likely to perform worse (inexperienced + new audience)
▪ People likely to quit in beginning
o For experts: likely to perform better (bigger audience = better
performance)
• Experience arousal from crowds
o Increase anxiety for newbies
o Increase motivation for experts
• Social loafing – tendency of people in a group to show less effort when not held
individually accountable
o Likely to happen when:
▪ Perso feels like they a’t otriute to group are’t apale)
▪ Person feels like they can cheat if there are equal rewards in group
(capable, but lazy)
• Deindividuation – loss of self-awareness and self-restraint/ do things against own
morals because other people are doing it
o Likely to happen when:
▪ Anonymous among other people
▪ Aroused (eg. huge fights after a big game)
• Eg. Stanford Prison Experiment: guard uniforms and
mirrored glasses simulated anonymity
• Groupthink – in pursuit of social harmony (and avoidance of open disagreement),
groups will make decisions without an open exchange of ideas
o Irony: prevents individual thinking, prevents a realistic assessment of
options
• Eg. The Peoples’ Teple y Ji Joes, 1973
o Religious communism → built church in Midwest on utopian idea of
equality for all members
▪ Appealed to marginalized people (majority members were black
women)
o Church moved to California and established over 15 locations
▪ Held fudraisig oetios aross Califoria here they did
background checks on attendees to appear god-like
o Negatie reports fro forer eers surfaed aout The Peoples’
Temple
o 1977, Jonestown: Remaining members moved to Guyana and worked in
fields
▪ Members censored from American family/ contact
o 1978: ~900 people mass suicide by cyanide poisoning
▪ Jones was convinced the outside world was too evil
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