PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter Ch 13: Groupthink, Group Polarization, Deindividuation
12 Dec 2017
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Ways in which people are influenced by their membership in social groups. Entitativity: the degree to which a collection of people feels like a cohesive group. For example, people consider intimacy groups to be more entitative than task groups. common bond, high cohesion. Sometimes high cohesion maybe undermine group performance: maintaining cohesion, fear of saying something that are unpopular: common identity toward a shared goal, shared threat or common challenge. Uncertainty- identity theory: people join and identity with groups in order to reduce these negative feelings of uncertainty about themselves and others. How do groups reduce uncertainty? groups reinforce people"s faith in their cultural worldview and their valued place within it: prescribing norms and roles. Hogg (2007): increasing uncertainty about the self increased group identification, but only when the group was high in entitativity. Social identity theory : belonging to groups is an important source of self esteem.
