PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Cognitive Dissonance, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Fundamental Attribution Error
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The power of the situation: social influences on behavior 13. 1. Mimicry: taking on for ourselves the behaviors, emotional displays, and facial expressions of others: coordinating our behavior with others is a key part of learning to get along with each other. Chameleon effect: people mimic others non-consciously, automatically copying others behaviors even without realizing it. Social norms: guidelines for how to behave in social contexts. Social facilitation: occurs when ones performance is affected by the presence of others: the presence of others is arousing, and arousal tends to strengthen our dominant responses. Groupthink: refers to this stifling of diversity that occurs when individuals are not able to express their true perspectives, instead having to focus on agreeing with others and maintaining harmony in the group. Groups in which members are more similar to each other, especially in terms of shared sociopolitical perspectives, are more likely to fall into groupthink.
