PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Stanford Prison Experiment, Social Loafing, Cockroach
13 Apr 2016
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Fulfills a fundamental need to belong provide social norms; scrips for behaviour. Provide social roles (social norms for people in specific position in that group) Example stanford prison study if you work somewhere you have a particular role, in. Stanford prison flip of a coin either a guard or a prisoner and in that your group provided you with the norm. However sometimes people lose themselves in the group. The loss of self-awareness and of individual accountability in a group . You loose your individuality because you are so consumed in being part of the group. Group action theories propose that groups have an impact on your performance. Sometimes groups bring out the best in you, other times they don"t. Writing a test in a room with lots of other people vs. Writing a test with no one else around.
