PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Loafing, Super Bowl, Deindividuation
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Guards in abu graibh prison peed on prisoners in iraq and were smiling. Prison experiment points to the power of social roles. If you want people to vote, ask them how important it is to be a voter (role, identity) Milgram"s subjects: sadistic or docile: context must always be taken into account! Situations are powerful and people underestimate their power. Variations in milgram"s study: education level negatively correlated with obedience, people who scored higher on the moral development scale were a little less obedient, burger replicated milgram"s study. 150 volt critical point if going passed 150 volts, likely to go all the way. People who resisted early were less likely to continue to the end. Milgram criticized: no informed consent, can"t tell people they have no choice and must continue, harm suffered too great. 15/60 had seizure-like responses to study: debriefing inadequate, no consent forms, prompts were insufficient to produce effects.
