PSYC 3430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, Fundamental Attribution Error
4 Jun 2019
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Most exam questions will come from leadership, second from power, least from decision making. Social power: the ability to in uence others: people who are leaders have more social power; they have the capability to in uence others, this is very common place. Something like a coach demanding that their athletes do something, or a vp in a company making the workers meet deadlines. To meet goals, people have to be pushed. How far can you be pushed till it is considered too much. Jim jones: if you didn"t follow the rules of the group you would be hit and punished. This is something like a coach taking the blame for a player not doing well, to make the player feel better. When a leader takes the blame, the followers like them even more. Milgram"s obedience to authority (focus on the individual: looked at the impact of punishment on learning, his research study had 3 types of people involved.
