PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Loafing, Philip Zimbardo, Social Facilitation
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The power of the situation: social influences on behavior. Most of us grow up with a clear distinction between right and wrong, good vs. evil. Normal people don"t torture or murder people, we say. Abu ghraib was a prison in iraq where us soldiers were found to have mistreated inmates and took photos. Abu ghraib: lack of supervision, non-military personnel, stress and exhaustion experienced by soldiers, language and cultural barriers, and of course the fact that they were in charge of prisoners. It"s too simplistic to blame the individuals: you have to look at the situational forces. Lewin: said that b = f(p,e) (behavior is a function of the person and the. This challenges both behaviorism and freudian theories. Mimicry: taking on for ourselves the behaviors, emotional displays, and facial expressions of others. We often follow the herd unconsciously, likely as a result of how we tend to learn.
