Dispositional factors How do you tend to think to behave What makes you different from other people In general you are your own person Situational Factors What s appropriate in a certain situations Not about the person it has to do about what s going on around them Normative influence We do what we think is normal Motivated to do what we think is normal REJECTION consequence Felt awful We behave to avoid t be rejected Following what other people did kept us alive and led us to survive Wired to adjust to those norms Death may be a rejection Look around to other people to see what s normal Extent to makeup piercings and tattoos can change and be altered to be un normal Conformity Adjust behavior to fit what we think something will do or act Asch Line study normative influence when asking people to write down and say out loud write down correct and say incorrect out loud Informational Influence Assume other people have valuable information you need to know Look up Other people will look up Looking at others and using that as a source for accurate information Smoke filled room 75 reported alone 10 did when the other people were there Group polarization moderate opinions become extreme Normative social comparison theory state we understand ourselves by making comparisons with others Am I Good dancer depends We want to be similar and valued Stronger opinions are encouraged Social comparison theory rivalry moderate onions become polarized Persuasive argument theories reason for supporting is Y some one ho agrees may not have thought of that Ne reasons support it more Why is our country so divided Public opinions change normative versus informational influence Is it easy to be among friends Information that already supports our beliefs Groups need to have the same opinion in order to polarize Zimbardo randomly assigned o be dom or submissive How random assignment works Deindividulaization anonymous group member vs self awareness individual Masks group norm Uniforms make us less ourselves Abuse at Abu Ghraib take pictures with the prisoners Latane and Darley Bystander Intervention Process How do you make this an emergency Pro social behavior Social cognitive theory actual norm Social biological theory Reciprocal altruism Someone else is taking care of us Diffusion of responsibility Is anyone taking action to help
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